The popularity of the case made celebrities out of the judge, lawyers and criminal justice officials participating in the case. Today, 11 years after the case ended, the debate continues.
Guilty or Not?

Evidence displayed by the prosecution included a genetic match between Simpson's blood and blood found at the crime scene and proof that blood matching both Goldman's and Nicole Simpson's was found in Simpson's Ford ronco and in his home.

The defense team argued that the blood evidence was either the result of poor police work or had been planted by racist police officers (C, 1995). The defense showed tapes of Mark Fuhrman, one of the LAPD officers to search Simpson's house after the murders, using racist terms in a 1994 interview. The defense attorney compared Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler and pleaded with the jury to "do the right thing" and send the police a message about racism with a…...

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BBC. (1995). The OJ Simpson Case. BBC News. Retrieved from the Internet at http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/simpsoncase.shtml.

Jet Magazine. (July 25, 1994). Opinion poll says race plays role in O.J. Simpson case. Jet Magazine.

Reed, Ishmael. (September, 1994). The O.J. Simpson case - discussions of murder case. Ebony.

Davis, Thulani. (August, 1995). You learn to be skeptical - O.J. Simpson case. The Sporting News.

O.J. Simpson Trials: Criminal vs. Civil
One of the most confusing aspects of the OJ Simpson saga for laypersons was that Simpson was apparently tried twice for his crimes, despite the protection against 'double jeopardy' or being retried for the same offense. In the American justice system, once a defendant is tried for murder, even if new evidence is discovered against him or her, there can be no retrial for the same crime (Grubbs 2016). The distinction is that Simpson was first tried in criminal court and was found guilty but was then tried in civil court in a suit brought by the family of the victims of the crimes, who demanded financial restitution for the wrongful death of Nicole Brown Simpson and on Goldman (Grubbs 2016). The burden of proof in civil court is far less onerous than in criminal court, given that defendants can only be penalized with fines,…...

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References

The differences between a criminal case and a civil case. (2016). Find Law. Retrieved from:

 http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/the-differences-between-a-criminal-case-and-a-civil-case.html#sthash.IcFifC3O.dpuf 

Grubbs, J. (2016). What does O.J. Simpson's civil trial verdict mean? 'Liable' does not mean 'guilty.' Bustle. Retrieved from:  http://www.bustle.com/articles/152048-what-does-oj-simpsons-civil-trial-verdict-mean-liable-does-not-mean-guilty 

Wrongful death overview (2016). FindLaw. Retrieved from:

O.J. and Nicole
The case of O.J. Simpson, who was found guilty in civil court for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, was the ex-husband of Nicole and had been charged in the past, during their marriage with spousal abuse. It may be said that in this case study, the theory of victim precipitation (passive) could be applied, as Nicole's friendship with Ronald following so soon upon her separation and divorce from O.J. could be said to be the reason that O.J. attacked and killed both -- or to use the parlance of the civil court case, the reason that O.J. was "responsible" for the deaths of Nicole and Ronald.

O.J. Simpson was a professional football player in the NFL. He was also a popular entertainer and had appeared in films like The Naked Gun and each of their sequels, also starring Leslie Nielson. He had a…...

Courtroom TV
The discussion below is an analysis of a criminal prosecution case that was celebrated

The OJ Simpson Case; Criminal Procedures

The presiding judge indicated that she was satisfied with the prosecutions argument. Judge Kathleen pointed out that she was convinced that Mr. Simpson had questions to answer in the superior court about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and onald L. Gold man on 12th June night. This ruling was a conclusion of a hearing that ran for six days to determine whether the prosecution had a strong case against Mr. Simpson to enable it to proceed to trial. Lawyer Shapiro, representing Mr. Simpson, argued for the dismissal of the case. The case was one of the most celebrated ones in nearly a decade. He further pointed out that the police should be allowed to complete their investigations at the very minimum for the case to continue. Detectives had pointed out…...

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The Los Angeles Police Department and the Coroner's Office apparently did allow enough room for error to make it difficult for the prosecution to meet its burden of proof and those mistakes were no doubt compounded by the decision to put Detective Mark Fuhrman on the stand without sufficiently investigating his reputation. The focus on race was largely the responsibility of a deliberate defense strategy in connection with the (unspoken and never acknowledged) apparent intention of the defense team to take advantage of the phenomenon of juror nullification to issue a verdict that was contrary to the weight of the evidence and predicated more on the perception of racial injustice in general than on the merits of the actual case before the jury.

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Dershowitz, a. (1996). easonable Doubts. New York: Simon & Schuster....

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Dershowitz, a. (1996). Reasonable Doubts. New York: Simon & Schuster.

OJ Simpson Versus the People: Impact on Criminal justice
The American criminal justice process and system are responsible for shaping the present-day US laws; influential entities include even 19th-century governmental authorities and political leaders. The system, which comprises law enforcement bodies like local police forces, correctional facilities and criminal courts, was primarily created for ensuring American citizens’ safety. It constitutes a structural framework that facilitates the maintenance of law and order in American society (Zedner & Ashworth, 2012; \"Justice, Western Theories\", 2018; Baldwin, 1912). 

According to Mueller (1996), the structuring of the US criminal justice system has gone through several modifications after historic events occurred within the criminal law context that uncovered the system’s shortcomings (Mueller, 1996). These events, perhaps, influenced lawmakers to enforce amendments and change the case execution process, for appropriately upholding justice. One such case is that of OJ Simpson, who was tried for killing Nicole Brown (his former…...

Although in this particular case it seemed that Scott Peterson was guilty, even if the evidence was just circumstantial, this type of evidence has sent many people to death, only to find out later that they were not guilty. This is actually a flaw of the jury system. The European continental system lets a judge appreciate whether a person is guilty or not of some crime. Since judges have to pass an exam in order to be appointed and since they are not elected for some period of time, their complete independence is assured. This way, an impartial judge would be indifferent to the media pressure and would weigh the evidence better than any jury, since a judge certainly has more experience than any juror. However, the American legal system chose to put ordinary people to judge other ordinary people, with the "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" principle as the…...

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1. Hilden, Julie, "The Scott Peterson trial: Can prosecutors win the case?," FindLaw Columnist Special to CNN.com, CNN.com, July 21, 2004 Wednesday

2. Sahagun, Louis, "Peterson Case Puts the Jury on Defensive," the Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2004 Friday

3. Dearen Jason, "Crunch time at Peterson trial" the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), November 1, 2004 Monday

Dearen Jason, "Crunch time at Peterson trial" the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), November 1, 2004 Monday

"The criterion for the admissibility of a confession has thus evolved into the quality of voluntariness. The aim of admitting into evidence only voluntary confessions is to prevent the introduction of unreliable evidence. & #8230; the result is that judges may exclude confessions where the coercion is blatant and obvious but not exclude confessions where the coercion" is more subtle -- the jury is left to decide the confession's veracity in this case (akefield & Underwager 20009).
Question 13

Discuss and provide examples pertaining to the waiver of privilege against self-incrimination.

The protection against self-incrimination does not apply to "non-testimonial evidence" such as giving examples of one's voice, police line-ups, blood samples or fingerprints (Lesson 12, 2009, Slide 4)

Question 14

The principal restriction of impeachment by the use of evidence of misconduct can result in a conviction of a witness. Explain this concept and give examples.

Impeaching the testimony of a witness may involve…...

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Exceptions to the hearsay rule. (2009). Everything2.com. Retrieved May 28, 2009 at  http://everything2.com/title/Exceptions%2520to%2520the%2520Hearsay%2520Rule 

ELMO evidence presentation. (2009). Middle District of Pennsylvania. Retrieved May 28, 2009

at  http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/docs/elmo.pdf 

Evidence. (2009). eNotes. Retrieved May 28, 2009 at  http://www.enotes.com/forensic-science/evidence-chain-custody

Both Andrew and Abby had been killed in a similar manner -- crushing blows to their skills from a hatchet (Tetimony of Bridget Sullivan in the Trial of Lizzie Borden).
Just prior to the murder there was a great deal of conflict at the Borden house. The two living Borden sisters, Lizzie and Emma, occupied the front of the house, while Andrew and Abby the rear. Meals were rarely served as a family; Andrew was very tight and rejected many modern conviencences and the two daughters, well past marriage age for this time period, argued with their Father about his decision to dive the valuable properties among extended relatives before his death instad of the estate going to them. Lizzie did not hate her step-mother, but did not really enjoy her company and the combination of Andrew's monetary views, the new social mores of the time, and Andrew's insistence that…...

Media Coverage of Trials
Providing in-depth coverage of trials, including pretrial hearings and all events related to a case has become a prime topic for the television media. In the last five years, the television channel "Court TV" has acquired over twenty million viewers (Lassiter, 1996). In addition, a body of research exists demonstrating that pretrial media coverage affects the outcomes of some trials (ruschke & Loges, 1999). A variety of experts including lawyers, psychologists, and communication experts have all suggested that pretrial publicity, when negative, may influence juries negatively against defendants (Dixon & Linz, 2002) in spite of the fact that under our legal system, a person is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

ut at the same time, one of the most cherish rights given to us in the Constitution is freedom of the press -- the right of the media to communicate to…...

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Bruschke, Jon, and Loges, Willam E. 1999. "Relationship Between Pretrial Publicity and Trial Outcomes." Journal of Communication, Vol. 49.

Dixon, Travis L., and Linz, Daniel. 2002. "Television News, Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity and the Depiction of Race." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 46.

Lassiter, Christo. 1996. "TV or Not TV - That Is the Question." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86.

Staff writers. 2000. "Litigation Publicity: Courtroom Drama or Headline News?" Communications and the Law, Vol. 22.

Civil vs. Criminal Law Goals
The American justice system differentiates between civil (tort) and criminal law, with the most significant distinction being that the state generally has the authority to prosecute crimes but not torts, while individuals have the power to directly bring civil but not criminal charges. The goals of a criminal case are to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused, but also to uphold the tenets of the law, protecting the public safety and in many cases offering some form of victim restitution to promote principled justice (“The Difference Between Torts and Crimes,” 2004).
Players
The distinction is due to the perception that crimes are affronts to the state, and require no individual plaintiff. On the other hand, tort law covers contracts between parties and not between one party and the state. The general public represented by a jury plays a part in criminal but not civil cases.
Commencement
Commencement procedures differ…...

Safeguarding the criminal justice system from wrongful convictions through an efficient innocence program policy evaluation proposalExecutive summaryConvicting innocent people is a global concern. The problem has been brought to the fore in the US through DNA tests that have proven the innocence of some of the people already serving jail terms. So far, up to 138 people have been exonerated of the crimes they were accused and convicted of. Of the number, 13 people were on death row. Experts observe that at least 23 people have already been executed after conviction, in the US, despite their innocence. There are persistent efforts that have led to significant progress with regard to detecting and preventing people from being wrongfully convicted. There is a lot of room for improvement in this area though. Apart from the reforms highlighted and discussed in this paper, the public is increasingly becoming aware of the problem.…...

2. Freedman, Jonathan. (2007). "No real evidence for TV violence causing real violence."

Retrieved July 7, 2010 from:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=18490

This source is an Internet editorial article published online on April 27, 2007 by Jonathan

Freedman, a Psychology professor and former department chairperson at the University

of Toronto. Professor Freedman has taught previously at Stanford University and Columbia University and has chaired the department at the University of Toronto.

Professor Freedman's central thesis is his fundamental opposition to the position taken in

2007 by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that violence in media is a causal factor in actual aggression and violence in society. According to Professor

Freedman, the FCC relied on inaccurate information on the number of relevant studies, and also failed to distinguish between empirically valid information and anecdotal information in reaching their position on the issue. Professor Freedman also suggests the need to differentiate between depictions of fictionalized and real violence in any such analysis…...

Research Question and Introduction Development Topic: Safeguarding the criminal justice system from wrongful convictions through an efficient innocence program
Research Question: What aspects of the innocence program need improvement, and in what ways, in order to guard the judicial system from wrongful convictions? (Rossi, Lipsey & Freeman, 2004)
Introduction
Wrongful conviction is an abuse of justice. It entails the sentencing and subsequent punishment of someone for crimes they never committed (Huff & Killias, 2013). Wrongful convictions can happen in civil and criminal cases alike. Many criminal justice processes have been tailored to overcome this possibility and overturn such erroneous judicial decisions. It is quite difficult to achieve this, however, due to fundamental challenges in the judicial system. Wrongful convictions may take years or decades to overturn. In some instances the discovery of innocence happens after a person has already served their time in prison, after they are dead or after they are executed. Wrongful…...

Rational for Selecting Juries
Page 3 Generalizations about juries

Page 4 General comments: jury service

Page 4 General comments: summoning juries

Page 5 General comments: Simpson jury

Page 6 Jurors errors and DNA analysis

Role of Juries

Close Scrutiny of Juries and Jury Selection

Role of Juries

There is rarely any debate when it comes to the pivotal role of juries in the United States' system of justice. It is the "foundation of the American justice system" and is "Vital to our democracy and our system of checks and balances," according to the American Judicature Society (AJS). The AJS goes on to call the jury system " ... the fundamental safeguard of our constitutional liberties." Certainly it is not perfect and it can be manipulated by shrew lawyers in some cases, but true, fair, outcomes are possible and those outcomes depend on the quality of the jurors who are chosen to serve (AJS).

Rationale for selecting the role of…...

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November 23, 2015, from  http://www.businessinsider.com .