Trascrizione completa di OJ Simpson’s INFAMOUS Murder Trial - Part 2 - OUTLORE with Eleanor Neale

00:03:35.639 meet up back here to discuss urges trial. My disclaimer 69 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.400 from part one still stands in part two, but just 70 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.639 to save my ass legally, I just want to reiterate 71 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.080 that all of the information in this video is publicly available. 72 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.479 Me and my research has found it and compiled it 73 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.840 all into this one video, but all opinions are mine 74 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:54.639 and mine alone. The sensitive topics covered in this series include, 75 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:58.439 but are not limited to, domestic abuse and violence, racism 76 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.199 and racial abuse, suicide, ideation, police brutality, and misogyny. If 77 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:05.400 these topics are too intense for you, trust me, I 78 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.159 get it. This is a really heavy case, especially this 79 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.680 second half, so I would recommend that you click out 80 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:12.199 of the video now if you feel like it's too 81 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.560 intense for you. Hopefully I'll get to see you some 82 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:16.560 other time with a different video. But with all of 83 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.800 that being said, let's jump back into the crazy case 84 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:22.800 of URJ Simpson. So the last part left off with 85 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:27.319 police finally arresting and capturing Urja and blocking him up 86 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.519 in police custody until his trial. He'd already assembled his 87 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:35.120 dream team of lawyers, including Bob Shapiro Robert Kardashian, but 88 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.839 now at this point a prosecutor had been chosen to 89 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.759 fight the other side. Her name was Marsha Clark. She'd 90 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.360 been working as a lawyer and a prosecutor for twelve 91 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.519 years before this, and she took her job very, very seriously, 92 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.319 and she treated this case the same as any other 93 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.639 case that she'd ever worked on. She didn't care for 94 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:58.079 the great J. Simpson. The celebrity didn't FaZe her. She 95 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.199 didn't allow for his fame, his mo his power, his 96 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.680 connections to intimidate her. She wasn't going to tiptoe around 97 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.000 this case just because he was famous. She was a 98 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:09.720 very strong woman who fought for what she believed in, 99 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.920 and in this case, she believed that Urja was a murderer. 100 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.639 She'd studied all of the evidence that they had, and 101 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.959 she realized very quickly that j didn't have an alibi. 102 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:22.199 No one could give him an alibi for that night. 103 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.560 What we do know of Urja's movements that night comes 104 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.560 a lot from his friend slash housemate, Kitto Kalin. He 105 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.519 said that he was out with Urja around nine pm 106 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.319 that night. They went out in the car to go 107 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.519 and get McDonald's. I think they ate it in the 108 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:40.240 car and then they returned home for about nine forty pm. 109 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.519 The murders are believed to have taken place around ten pm, 110 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.000 and no one saw Urga from nine to forty when 111 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.920 they got home until eleven pm that night. There's that 112 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.680 whole window of time that he is unaccounted for. Even 113 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.040 he hardly knows where he was. Do you remember that 114 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.000 really confusing statement that he gave police in part one 115 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.480 about buying flowers for his daughter or going to his 116 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:05.879 girlfriend Paula's house, Like even he couldn't say where he was. Anyway, 117 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:09.120 the next time Kato Klin saw j Simpson, it was 118 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.639 eleven PM that night, and he seemed a bit agitated. 119 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.040 He was hot and sweaty, even though it wasn't that 120 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.920 warm out that night, and his limo driver even said 121 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.800 the same. When Urja finally turned up late for his 122 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:24.879 transfer to the airport. But we'll get back to that 123 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.160 in a second. But eventually when he did get there, 124 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.040 he had four bags to take to the airport with him, 125 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:32.399 and the limo driver was helping him to load them 126 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.160 into the car. But there was one bag that he 127 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.079 was very touchy about. He wouldn't let the limo driver 128 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.480 touch it. He wanted to load it into the car. 129 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.120 And then when he got out at the other end, 130 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.720 he wanted to unload that one particular bag. He wasn't 131 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.560 letting anyone touch it. He took all four bags to 132 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.360 the airport with him in that limo. But police have 133 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.600 since spoken with airport staff and looked at records and 134 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.040 found that ourj only checked in three bags. He took 135 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.199 four and only had three. So people naturally have speculated 136 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.680 what could have happened to that fourth bag before he 137

00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.279 got on the fly. It seems as though it was ditched, 138 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.959 so what could have been in it? Hypothetically, if OJ 139 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.279 was the murderer, he probably would have a lot of 140 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.000 stuff that he wanted to get rid of. You know, 141 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.600 bloody clothes are murd weapons. Who knows. But anyway, back 142 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.720 to that limo, because like I said, he was late 143 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.120 for it. It was actually supposed to pick him up 144 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:29.160 at twenty past ten, and he didn't get there until eleven. 145 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.399 So he was busy, he was doing something and the 146 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.800 limo driver couldn't get hold of him. At twenty past ten. 147 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.319 The driver said that when he arrived, he like buzzed 148 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:39.199 the intercom tried to call Urj's phone to let him 149 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.160 know that he was there, but he got no response 150 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.279 at all. He just couldn't get hold of him. So 151 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.800 he decided to just kind of wait, you know, linger 152 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.040 outside and hope that Ourja would come soon. And then eventually, 153 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.040 at eleven PM, a very disturbed looking Urja came out 154 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.480 carrying all these four bags. But around fifteen minutes before this, 155 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.519 like ten forty five ish, the limo driver is just 156 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.040 standing out outside of his vehicle. He's just waiting, and 157 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:07.040 he witnesses something strange. A man of Urje's stature was 158 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:10.639 messing about kind of near some bushes behind the house. 159 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.120 And then he's snuck in through the front door at 160 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.560 ten forty five. And this is very interesting because if 161 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.000 you remember from part one, Kato Kielin was in his 162 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.879 room at ten forty five and he heard some banging 163 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.480 outside and he didn't know what it was at the time, 164 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.800 but maybe it could have been urging. And then the 165 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:32.120 next morning, that suspicious right hand leather glove was found 166 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.039 right where all the banging was, right where the limo 167 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.399 driver had seen that shadowy figure rummaging around. The glove 168 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.120 that could well have matched the glove from the crime 169 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:46.840 scene was found. It's all just so dodgy Urja doesn't 170 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:49.320 seem to have an alibi for that hour of time, 171 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:53.720 and people think they saw him acting suspiciously. In fact, 172 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.840 there'd been another witness come through with another dodgy sighting 173 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.120 of Urga from in that unaccounted window of time. A 174 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.240 woman had been driving around, like in Nicole's area of Brentwood, 175 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.559 when a white car tried to cut in front of 176 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.120 her and she didn't move. She wasn't gonna let him 177 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.720 cut in, so the driver started going absolutely mental at her, 178 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.639 banging on his window, beeping his horn, screaming move your 179 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.879 damn car, move it, move it. The woman remembered thinking 180 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.799 she recognized this man, but she couldn't quite place it 181 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.080 in her head at the time, But regardless, she noted 182 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:28.159 down the license plate of this dangerous driver, and what 183 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.799 do you know, it was OJ's car, the white Bronca 184 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.919 that had blood on it the next day, So now 185 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.519 we know that he was out in his car driving 186 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:41.879 around Nichole's area in that unaccounted for window of time. Interesting, 187 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.240 but annoyingly, this witness and this account that she tells 188 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.039 was discredited because she sold her story to a tabloid magazine. 189 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.639 She had already given this information like in court, I think, 190 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.759 in a preliminary hearing of sorts. But because she sold 191 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.559 the story before the full trial had ended, they just 192 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.320 couldn't use it anymore. George's team tried to say that 193 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.600 she made it up and sold it for money and 194 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.559 for fifteen minutes of fame, and so in the end 195 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.519 it was practically brushed off as unusable. And I mean, 196 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.799 I'm not a legal professional, but I mean, she did 197 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.159 already give it in court before she sold it. It's 198 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.120 annoying that she sold it before the trial was over anywhere, 199 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.080 even though I don't fully understand it, like I kind 200 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.639 of get it. I get it. Marsha Clark, the prosecutor, 201 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.840 was furious when she found out that this witness sold 202 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.519 her story because that would have been so valuable, and 203 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.120 now it's deemed untrustworthy. She actually made a statement to 204 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.279 the court. She said, because it

is our duty as 205 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.960 prosecutors to present only the evidence in which we are 206 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.080 one hundred and ten percent confident as to its truthfulness 207 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.480 and reliability, I must now ask you to completely disregard 208 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.519 the statements given and the testimony given by Jill Shivley 209 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.559 in this case. But even though she was disappointed to 210 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.720 be losing such strong evidence, she knew that there was 211 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.279 plenty more evidence for her to be able to build 212 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:02.000 a case on. For example, Urge had been accused and 213 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:07.840 actually reported by Nicole herself for domestic abuse several times 214 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.720 throughout their relationship. There were plenty of nine one one 215 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.080 calls from Nicole herself. Police had been down to the house. 216 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:17.159 He'd even been physically arrested one time for it. I 217 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:18.799 mean he was let go, and like I said in 218 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.879 the first part, he was never actually charged for domestic 219 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.919 abuse in any capacity. There was one case where he 220 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.200 ended up pleading no contest to spousal abuse, which essentially 221 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:34.279 is him agreeing to tick the punishment of what he's 222 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.200 been accused of. But it's not like a guilty please, 223 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.840 he's not admitting guilt. He's actually mintain in that he 224 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:44.320 is innocent, but he said, just give me the punishment anyway, 225 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.399 like I'm not going to bother fighting against it. Nicole 226 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.840 ended up dropping the case against him in the end, 227 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.039 as she often did, as she did every single time, 228 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.600 and we talked about this in Part one, because he 229 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.679 really controlled her finances. She didn't work. He was the 230 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.679 one that bought the house. He had the upper hand, 231 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.519 and she knew that if she pissed him off, he 232 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.720 could take everything from her, so she didn't. She tried 233 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.440 not to, although it has been rumored that the reason 234 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:14.080 she dropped the charges was actually because her parents persuaded 235 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:18.559 her to. Allegedly, j Simpson offered Nicole's father a very 236 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.679 lucrative business deal around this time, and he needed it. 237 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.000 He needed the money, and so he took it and 238 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.279 told his daughter, please just make friends with him again, 239 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.759 get back with him again. Of course that can't be confirmed, 240 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.200 but you know that's actually mentioned a lot in this case. 241 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:36.919 And then there was a very big incident that happened 242 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.600 on New Year's Day of nineteen eighty nine. In fact, 243 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.759 it was so significant that Ourja referenced it in his 244 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.600 suicide note A nine to one. One call was made 245 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:49.039 from their home address at about four am, and there 246 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.080 was no talking in this call whatsoever. The operator just 247 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.080 heard a load of screaming and banging, as if someone 248 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.240 was hitting someone else, like a slapping sound. The call 249 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.759 cut off without anyone speaking. But luckily the operator had 250 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.679 managed to figure out the location of this call and 251 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.639 they sent some officers down to check on everything. When 252 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:13.000 police arrived, they spotted a blond woman staggering out from 253 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.480 behind a bush. She was in just her bra and 254 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.399 some dirty sweatpants, and I'm sure you guessed it was 255 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.120 Nicole Brown. She made her way over to the officer's screaming, 256 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.480 He's gonna kill me. He's gonna kill me. So the 257 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.879 officer asked, who's gonna kill your? Urja Oja? Who do 258 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.639 you mean, Urja the football player? Yes, Urja Simpson the 259 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.840 football player. Does he have any weapons? Yeah, lots of guns. 260 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.600 He has lots of guns. Nicole herself was badly beaten. 261 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.720 She had a bust lip, all her forehead and her 262 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.399 left eye were black and blue, and on her neck 263 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.840 was the imprint of someone's hand, as if she'd been 264 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.480 strangled or restrained. Police managed to get Nicole into the 265 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.799 back of a cop car and calm her down where 266 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.879 she could explain it a little bit more. She was 267 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.639 saying that Urja was threatening to beat her. It was 268 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.039 a common occurrence. He did this all the time. I 269 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.799 actually told the police, you guys never do anything. You 270 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:06.159 never do anything. You come out, You've been here eight times, 271 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.720 and you never do anything about him. Urja eventually stepped 272

00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.840 out of the house where police arrested him on suspicion 273 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.200 of domestic violence, and he was angry as hell. He 274 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.200 shouted at them, You've been here eight times before, and 275 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.559 now you're going to arrest me for this. This is 276 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:24.960 a family matter. The next day, Nicole was questioned about 277 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.559 this whole thing by police and she'd changed her mind 278 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.919 about pressing charges against him. After this, police did their 279 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.879 own internal investigation to see how often these claims were 280 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.960 made about Urja, since Nicole said she reports it all 281 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.240 the time and they never do anything, and police were 282 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.039 shocked to see that it was true. They'd been out 283 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.200 to that house at least three times, they'd taken at 284 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.679 least eight calls. This was enough for them to consider 285 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.120 Urj Simpson an abuser, so he was given a suspended 286 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:57.519 sentence twenty four months of probation, and he was ordered 287 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.919 to pay four hundred and seventy dollars in a fi 288 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:02.759 to the STIT and he was also ordered to pay 289 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:07.399 five hundred dollars to a women's domestic violence refuge shelter. 290 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.399 Another one of the terms of his suspended probation was 291 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.399 that he had to attend counseling sessions twice a week 292 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.960 to figure out where this violent behavior was coming from 293 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.679 and to stop it. And the abuse allegations continued even 294 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:23.600 when the two of them had split up, even after 295 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.960 they divorced. They divorced in early nineteen ninety two, then 296 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.600 over a year and a half later, in October of 297 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.000 ninety three, Nicole called the police on Urga once again. 298 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.120 She said, he's Urja Simpson. I think you know his record. 299 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.120 He's going to beat the shit out of me. When 300 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.759 police arrived, Nicole was recorded, like on their bodycam footage, 301 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.879 saying he gets a very animalistic look in him. All 302 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.440 his veins pop out, his eyes are black and just black. 303 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.919 I mean cold, like an animal. I mean very very weird. 304 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.519 And when I see it, it just scares me. Nicole 305 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.159 Brown remained fearful of her husband right up until the 306 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.399 day that she died. Just five days before her murder, 307 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.720 she'd actually confided in women's shelter that she thought that 308 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.559 Urja was stalking her. That was five days before she 309 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:13.080 was brutally slaughtered on her own front lawn. She thinks 310 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.799 that he is stalking hat. So there's plenty of evidence 311 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.639 from Nicole herself that she feared for her life and 312 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.159 for her safety at the hands of j Simpson. So 313 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.679 prosecutor Marsha Clark was collecting all this evidence, pulling it 314 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.080 all together, ready for the trial to begin. But one 315 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.840 thing she didn't bank on was Urja's legal team being 316 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.799 very hard to work with. I mean, of course they're 317 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.200 on opposite sides, but his team was going above and 318 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.840 beyond to make things difficult for the prosecution. They kept 319 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.919 finding new ways to inconvenience Marsha and her team. It's 320 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.200 almost as if they were determined to make proving Urga's 321 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.360 guilt as difficult as possible. For example, remember that hat 322 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.480 that was found at the murder scene. Well, there were 323 00:16:55.519 --> 00:17:00.639 a couple of hairs inside it, probably the murderer's hairs. Probably, 324 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.119 So of course Marsha orders for a hair sample to 325 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.240 be taken from Urja so that they can test his 326 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.079 hair against the hat hair. When they received this request 327 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.400 for a hair sample, his defense said that Marsha could 328 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:16.440 have one singular strand of his hair. Well, a standard 329 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.519 hair sample is usually about one hundred hairs. They take 330 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.319 them from different places, you know, just so that they've 331 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.799 got plenty to be able to test. But no OJ's 332 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.680 team was saying, you can have one, no more. Marsha 333 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.440 herself said that she'd never seen a court attempt to 334 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.839 restrict that, to which Bob Shapiro argued that one hundred 335 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.920 hairs is unduly invasive. So a separate court hearing was 336 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.319 held for this issue alone, just to settle this debate 337 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.799 between the sides, and it was ordered that Oja had 338 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.759 to give a sample of ten hairs, no more, no 339 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.119 less ten hairs,

and like I say, one hundred hairs 340 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:54.519 is standard practice. Marsha couldn't understand how OJ's team had 341 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:59.200 made it seem so invasive and so unnecessary when it's 342 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.240 necessary an every other kiss. His defense didn't stop at 343 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.039 the hat, but they had plenty of other methods of 344 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:08.519 inconveniencing the other side. They wanted to fight to get 345 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.039 a lot of the evidence discounted in this trial on 346 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:15.279 the grounds that the initial search of Urge's home was 347 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.559 actually illegal because they didn't have a search warrant. Remember, 348 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.839 the reason police like scaled the wall and went into 349 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.559 the house without a warrant was because they'd spotted blood 350 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.440 on his car and they feared that someone inside might 351 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:32.599 be injured or dying, or god forbid, even already dead. Usually, 352 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.119 under certain circumstances like that, where they think that someone 353 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.359 is in danger someone needs help, usually it's okay for 354 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.119 them to bypass needing a search warrant and just go 355 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.519 straight ahead. They'd be able to argue in the aftermath that, like, 356 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.559 we thought we needed to be there, we thought someone 357 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.720 needed saving, and that's what they tried to do. Here. 358 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:51.839 They were like, come on, like this, this is a 359 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.519 rule that we're allowed to do this if someone could 360 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:56.880 be in danger. But Urga's team weren't going to let 361 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:58.720 them get away with it. Here. They said that all 362 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.559 of the evidence there was no uttered and found in 363 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.039 that initial search should be completely discounted because the way 364 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:08.680 that it was collected violated the law. His lawyers tried 365 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.759 to say that the police didn't actually think that urga 366 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.039 was hurt or that he was in danger. They didn't 367 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.319 think his life was at risk. They just wanted an 368 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.400 excuse to get in there as soon as possible and 369 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:22.079 not need to wait for a search warrant so that 370 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.000 they could get finding evidence to pin this murder on 371 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.319 him immediately. His legal team were very much playing into 372 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.400 the distrust that black people had and still have with 373 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.440 the police. They were trying to say that URJ Simpson 374 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:39.960 was yet another black victim of the LAPD's racist corruption. 375 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:44.119 In their opinion, Urja was unfairly pinned as a suspect 376 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.559 right at the start of the case and from their 377 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:51.559 police were only interested in finding evidence that supports their narrative, 378 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.480 and they say they have a witness statement to actually 379 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:57.400 support this theory. There was a woman that was walking 380 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.279 down Nicole's Street on the night of the murder, like 381 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:02.880 literally just as police arrived and started to tap up 382 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.720 the scene, and she walked over to the police and 383 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.039 she was just asking what was going on, if she 384 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:09.680 could help or anything, and they told her not to worry, 385 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:12.039 as we've got it wrapped up now. I'm sure you 386 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.839 could interpret those words in different ways, like don't worry, 387 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.640 we've got the scene secured, or there's no danger anymore, 388 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:19.720 or like we're on it, we're on the kiss. But 389 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.240 Urga's lawyers believe that by we've got it wrapped up, 390 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.359 the police meant we've wrapped up the kiss, like we've 391 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.960 already figured out who our killer is. Within less than 392 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.359 an hour of the murder taking place, they had it 393 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.680 wrapped up and had pinned it on Urga Simpson. And 394 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.720 this was the main backbone of this whole trial. The 395 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.400 defense were trying to say that the LAPD had been 396 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.200 racist and that's why they've pinned it on Urga. But 397 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.079 then the prosecution we're trying to argue that no, like 398 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:50.559 all of this is just standard practice. But when you 399 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:52.880 twist it with that lens on it, you're making it 400 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.240 look bad. But like, that's not what it was. Think 401 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.039 the collection of hair samples when they said it was 402 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.440 unduly and to ask for more than one hair when 403 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:05.119 it's it is standard procedure to get like a whole 404 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:07.440 load of hairs to be able to test, which, by 405 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.039 the way, just for the record, the hairs were a match. 406 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.720 That was Ji's hat, or at least his hairs were 407 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.799 found in that

hat. So but anyway, all of that 408 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.920 was like pre trial, preliminary hearing, pre cordates. We haven't 409 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:25.319 even got to the actual trial yet, can you believe. 410 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.920 But before we can actually get into the trial, I 411 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.799 want to tell you about the absolute shit show that 412 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:34.319 was the jury selection for this case. So, of course, 413 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:37.440 when a jury is selected to be on a court case, 414 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.039 they should be completely blind to the case that they 415 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:43.960 are walking into. They shouldn't have any prior knowledge, any 416 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:47.160 prior beliefs or feelings about the case, just in case 417 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.720 that might like swear how they've are. But in cases 418 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:54.759 this famous or infamous, it's pretty hard to find eligible 419 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:58.359 jury members that don't already know who Ja Simpson is 420 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.599 or haven't seen this case in the new didn't literally 421 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:05.720 tune into the White broncour chase. It was practically impossible 422 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:08.920 to find like a shortlist of jurors. They ended up 423 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.759 finding nine hundred potentials, which I know sounds a lot, 424 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.759 but I think how many people are in America, man. 425 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:17.880 They brought people in from everywhere, and over a very long, long, 426 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.519 long process, these nine hundred jurors were slowly whittled down 427 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:24.440 and down and down until they had twelve jurors and 428 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:28.680 twelve alternates. Each of the nine hundred potentials were given 429 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:32.200 a questionnaire to fill out before they started the shortlist 430 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:34.440 in process, so then they could see how suitable they 431 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:36.359 would be for the trial if they had any like 432 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:40.279 personal biases or personal experiences that might swear how they 433 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:42.839 vote in the case. Some of the questions included, have 434 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.359 you ever asked a celebrity for an autograph? Have you 435 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.839 ever known anyone who had problems leaving an abusive relationship? 436 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:51.640 What do you think is the main cause of domestic violence? 437 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:54.039 Have you ever dated a person of a different race? 438 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:58.160 And does playing sports build an individual's character. So, when 439 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:01.200 the jurors were originally whittled down this nine hundred, they 440 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:03.799 got them down to about three hundred I think, and 441 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.680 from that point the judge in this case allowed both 442 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:11.799 of the teams of lawyers on both sides to have 443 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:15.200 the chance to meet each of the candidates, ask them questions, 444 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.559 interview them, and you know, just assess their appropriateness for 445 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:23.039 the kiss. I feel. So this process took quite some time. 446 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.200 I mean, there was three hundred of them to ask 447 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.160 further questions to. It's it's quite a process. And during 448 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:32.119 this stage, J's lawyers held a news conference where they 449 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.680 said that they were concerned about how the prosecution were 450 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:40.119 choosing their jurors. They said it seemed intentional to cause 451 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:43.680 issues for Bob Shapiro claimed that they were trying to 452 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:47.319 get black jurors removed for cause because they are black, 453 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.960 because they have black heroes, and because URJ. Simpson is 454 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.680 one of them. There's no other reason, and holding this 455 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:57.319 news conference did a lot for their overall argument, because 456 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.440 the very next day, the front page of the Elier 457 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:05.160 Times read prosecutors targeting black jurors, Sinson team says. But 458 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:08.359 despite the media's input on the situation, both teams of 459 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.680 lawyers were steady making progress questioning the jurors picking them 460 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.519 out until suddenly all momentum came to an abrupt halt. 461 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.319 Because one of Nicole Brown's best friends named Feir Resnik, 462 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:23.279 had just published a book all about Nicole and her 463 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:27.440 relationship with Urja and how she thinks Urja murdered her. 464 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.200 Everyone was talking about this book. This was one of 465 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.359 the first like inside looks into their relationship that had 466 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.160 happened since the murder. I guess. In it, she talked 467 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.720 about Nicole and Urge's abusive relationship, along with some very 468 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.640 unflattering comments about Nicole just sprinkled in like she was 469 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.920 a drug fiend, she was always an orgy's. She even 470 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.000 said that the two of them had like sexual relations 471 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:55.119 while they were in their respective relationships. In an interview 472 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:58.039 about this book, fear Resnick said, when I went to 473

00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:00.839 see a psychic after Nicole was murdered, the woman gave 474 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:03.599 me a message from Nicole. The psychic said, you will 475 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.200 be writing a book. Nicole wants you to be faithful 476 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.200 to your heart. She wants you to call it as 477 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.279 you see it, whether you believe in psychics or not, 478 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:13.839 actually your own call. But it seemed that Nicole's advice 479 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:17.079 from beyond the grave happened to fit very well with 480 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:20.400 Fearesnik's needs at that point in time, well, her need 481 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:23.279 for money. At that point in time, she was currently 482 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:27.359 going through a very pricey divorce settlement and her husband 483 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:30.880 was very, very rich. She was used to a luxury lifestyle, 484 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:33.480 but now they were getting divorced. She didn't have that 485 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:36.920 income anymore. She needed to make her own money. And 486 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.720 you could imagine that a book deal on this very current, 487 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.799 very controversial case that everyone is talking about. I'm sure 488 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:46.720 that would make a pretty penny, wouldn't it. And she 489 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:49.359 even used her fame post trial to end up on 490 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:53.200 shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians Real Housewives. You know, 491 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:56.640 the ulterior motives are really ulterior motiving right now. The 492 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.880 book she published was called Nicole Brown Simpson The Private 493 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.759 Diary of a Life Interrupted, which even the title itself 494 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:08.480 is very exploitative of your very recently deceased bestie. The 495 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:12.839 Private Diary, Like she's she is saying, I'm going to 496 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:15.200 divulge all her secrets and you're going to buy my book. 497 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.839 But in it, Fay painted our Jay as this insanely 498 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:24.319 jealous ex who openly discussed his thoughts about killing Nicole. 499 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:27.240 She even had quotes from Oja himself in there, things 500 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.599 that he had said to her personally. He supposedly said, 501 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.119 I can't take this fear, I can't take this. I 502 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:35.920 mean it, I'll kill that bitch. But even though quotes 503 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:39.920 like this should be very damning in the court case, 504 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:42.720 we have that same issue as with the witness earlier. 505 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:45.759 She cashed out on it. Instead of just giving it 506 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:47.759 to the trial and

letting that happen. I mean, you 507 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:49.960 could have made your book afterwards, Come on, girl, of 508 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.240 course she was now no longer a credible witness in 509 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:56.319 the eyes of the court, and so Fay couldn't be 510 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.839 called up as a witness to be able to give 511 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:00.559 all these quotes over and I mean, if the quotes 512 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.480 are genuine, if oj really did say that and pissed off, 513 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.599 I'm pissed off at Fear for publishing that and getting 514 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:10.160 the money for that rather than getting justice for her friend. 515 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.039 But yeah, the reason I bring up this book like 516 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.799 mid Jury Selection, is because that's when she published it. 517 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:17.720 She published it before the main trial even fucking started, 518 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:20.279 so everything had to be halted for forty eight hours 519 00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:23.200 because this book was so talked about. And the judge 520 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.920 said that the book caused the court great concerns about 521 00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:28.400 the ability of mister Simpson to get a fair trial, 522 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.119 and he also said that he needed to look into 523 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.240 the ramifications of this. I mean, this could have meant 524 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:35.440 that the whole trial was thrown out and like they 525 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:37.599 might have had to start again. Fear Resnik could have 526 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.440 really fucked this up for her friend. The judge rightfully 527 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.599 worried that these potential jurors could read the book or 528 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.920 hear about the book. Here quotes from the book. Here 529 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:49.359 people talking about it. You know, like I said, so 530 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.240 many people were talking about this book, but it was 531 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.720 really going to affect the trial. And it's hard enough. 532 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:56.480 I mean, these jurors are already ordered not to watch TV, 533 00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.519 they can't read newspapers, they can't interact with any form 534 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.119 of media. They can't even speak to their own family 535 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:05.519 members without being supervised just in case they tell them something, 536 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:07.799 you know, and now they can't even step foot in 537 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.880 a book shop because fear Resnik's bloody book is everywhere. 538 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.640 Bear in mind, this trial lasted for eleven months. These 539 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.119 poor jurors can't do for all for eleven months. They 540 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.480 can't even really leave their isolation. We'll talk more about 541 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.559 the jury at the end of this video, because this 542 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.960 case was really really hard for them, like it's it 543 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.680 was hard for absolutely everyone involved. So eventually, after a 544 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.559 forty eight hour pause where the judge evaluated what this 545 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:37.359 book could do to the trial, he decided to let 546 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.400 the jury selection continue. So now these nine hundred had 547 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:43.480 been whettled down to three hundred, and that had been 548 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:47.160 whittled down even further. So at this stage, each set 549 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:50.119 of lawyers the prosecution and the defense were both given 550 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:54.920 twenty vitos, essentially where they could say no to any 551 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.720 individual juror without having to give much of a reason. 552 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:00.440 As far as I'm aware, this isn't common practice in 553 00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:04.759 usual court cases. I in my own opinion, I think 554 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.519 the lawyers had way too much control over this trial. 555 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.599 I don't think they should be able to pick the 556 00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:12.279 jury that they're arguing to, because obviously they're gonna, whether 557 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.319 consciously or subconsciously, they're going to pick an audience that 558 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.960 they think their argument is going to resonate with. Of course, 559 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.519 and that is what ended up happening. The defense was 560 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:26.519 specifically picking out younger, less educated, lower income black jurors, which, 561 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.880 of course that last part about race. I mean black 562 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:32.119 jurors would be able to relate to and understand the 563 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:35.200 defense's argument in a way that white jurors just couldn't. 564 00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:38.119 And I guess the fact of being younger, less educated, 565 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.519 lower income, maybe that would make them easier to sway 566 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.400 easier to manipulate. Of these twenty four, fifteen were black, 567 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.599 six were white, and three were Hispanic. Based on their 568 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.920 answers to the questionnaires, the main twelve jurors had the 569 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.839 following characteristics. Only two of them were college graduates. Not 570 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.200 one of them read a newspaper regularly. Five of them 571 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.200 said that they or a family member had personally endured 572 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:05.920 a negative experience with law enforcement, five of them thought 573

00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:08.880 it was acceptable to use force on a family member, 574 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.319 and nine out of the twelve jurors thought that O. J. 575 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.559 Simpson was less likely to have murdered his wife because 576 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.519 he had excelled at football. During the selection, the prosecution 577 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:23.559 didn't use all twenty of their vetos, which I feel 578 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:25.839 could have been a mistake, honestly, but that is the 579 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:28.599 jury that they're dealing with. And one last thing before 580 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:30.440 we get into the trial, I promise, I'm sorry, I 581 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:32.279 promise we will get there in a second. But there 582 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.000 was a really important little shake up right before the 583 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:40.000 case went to trial. Bob Shapiro, OJ's main lawyer, the 584 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:43.279 leader of the Dream Team, actually suggested that maybe OJ 585 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:45.480 should just take a plea deal, Maybe he should just 586 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.079 plead guilty to manslaughter, get a lesser sentence, and be 587 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:51.480 done with all of this quicker Well. OURJ did not 588 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.839 like that Shapiro was kind of admitting defeat. He was 589 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.359 admitting that he didn't think that they could win this 590 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.799 trials as is well. The rest of the team were 591 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:03.519 not on his side. They were not down for that. 592 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.599 In fact, they decided to kick Bob Shapiro off of 593 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.160 the top spot since he clearly wasn't on the same 594 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:11.160 wave length of the rest of the team, which was 595 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.319 Ojay is innocent and we are going to prove that. 596 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:17.519 The rest of the team and Urga himself felt like 597 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:21.119 they couldn't trust Shapiro anymore, They couldn't trust his confidence 598 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:24.119 in the case as well. So he was replaced actually 599 00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.920 by a black lawyer named Johnny Cochrane, who was incredibly 600 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:32.000 passionate about racial injustice and the racism within the police force. 601 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.640 In fact, he was probably a better leader to begin with. 602 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.920 Given the route that they would takeing with this case, 603 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:39.440 I feel like it might have been a good swap 604 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.759 for them. Hey, So finally, the trial begins on January 605 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:46.079 twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five, four years before I would 606 00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:49.000 be born on that exact same day. Useless information, I know, 607 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:50.960 but sometimes I feel like I was destined for a 608 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.240 creepy job like this, and then things like that happen, 609 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.000 and I take it as evidence. Sir, The trial begins. 610 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.039 Urja walks in looking very dapper. He was smiling and 611 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.680 he winked at the at the gallery through a thumbs 612 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:05.960 up to his supporters. He seemed very confident right from 613 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.160 day one that this was gonna be fine. You know, 614 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:11.160 he was gonna be fine. At the beginning of the trial, 615 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.480 he was asked to repeat his plea that he'd given, 616 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:16.680 you know, in previous preliminary hearings, and he stood up 617 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:19.960 there and he said, absolutely, one hundred percent not guilty. 618 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.160 So let's get going, shall we. We will start with 619 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.960 each side's opening statements. We'll start with the prosecution. They said, 620 00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.359 we will expose to you in this trial the other 621 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.559 side of Urja Simpson, the side you never met before. 622 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.119 When you look behind that public face, you'll see a 623 00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.640 different face, and the evidence will show that the man 624 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.119 you will see will be the face of a batterer, 625 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.680 a wife beater, an abuser, a controller, the face of 626 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:47.160 ron and Nicholl's murderer. And then they briefly ran through 627 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.400 the events of the day leading up to the murder. 628 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.559 They said that Urja had attended his daughter's dance recital, 629 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.960 where he supposedly greeted everyone except from Nicole. Apparently, he 630 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:01.119 then moved his chair away from her to like in 631 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.720 the corner of the auditorium, and he sat there facing Nicole, 632 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.440 and he just stared at her. He just sat there 633 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:11.160 staring at her. This was a menacing stare, a penetrating stare. 634 00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:14.839 It was an angry stare, and it made everyone very uncomfortable. 635 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.480 And this made the conclusion very simple. She left him, 636 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:19.680 she was no longer in his control. He could not 637 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.759 stand to lose her, and so he murdered her. They 638 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:25.400 mentioned the blood evidence that had been found and that 639 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.759 the blood on Urga's car matched him and Ron Goldman. 640 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:33.319 And before this event, Ron and

Urjay had never met. 641 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.480 They didn't know each other. There was no possible reason 642 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.079 why Ron's blood should have been anywhere near his car. 643 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:42.119 They weren't friends, they weren't even acquaintances. And those blood 644 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:44.559 drops at the scene that were found, you know, alongside 645 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:48.920 their footprints, that blood was more than likely Urja. Simpsons 646 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:53.559 will talk like actual statistics and numbers and percentages in 647 00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:56.000 a little bit, but this was just the opening statement 648 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.480 where they said we think that blood is urges. And 649 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.359 also those footprints that were leading away from the scene, 650 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:04.839 there were size twelve men's shoes, the exact size that 651 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:09.159 Ojo Simpson was. But anyway, the prosecution's opening statement ended 652 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.800 with on June twelfth, nineteen forty four, after a violent 653 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.599 relationship in which the defendant beat her, humiliated her, and 654 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:19.800 controlled her. After he took her youth, her freedom, and 655 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:23.320 her self respect, just as she tried to break free Oorenthal, 656 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:26.639 James Simpson took her very life in what amounted to 657 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:29.880 his final and his ultimate act of control. And in 658 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:34.239 that final and terrible act, Ronald Goldman, an innocent bystander, 659 00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:38.719 was viciously and senselessly murdered. And then Oji's defense came 660 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:42.679 with their opening statement. They said, Detective Mark Furman will 661 00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.119 play an integral part in this case for a number 662 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.920 of reasons. Now, it's very interesting that the prosecution never 663 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.360 once mentioned his name. It's like they just want to 664 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.920 hide him, but they can't hide him. He is very 665 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.280 much a part of this case. We can only ask 666 00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:58.960 ourselves why didn't they mention him? I think that answer 667 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.440 will become very clear to you as the case progressors. 668 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:03.880 And he left it there for now on the on 669 00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:07.199 the detective Furman stuff, and we haven't actually mentioned him 670 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.840 by name yet, because I don't often mention detectives by name, 671 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:13.440 But like his work has been included in this video, 672 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:15.679 he was the one that found the blood smear on 673 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.880 the car. He

was the one that discovered a lot 674 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:20.559 of that initial evidence, you know, in the kind of 675 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:24.280 violating the law search that they did when they didn't 676 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:26.480 have the search warrant, and they found the glove, and 677 00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:28.679 they found the blood on the car. All of that 678 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.280 was Mark Furman. So when I first read that that 679 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:34.920 opening statement, I was quite intrigued as to why the 680 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.559 defense wanted to focus on him so much when he 681 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.800 was the one that found so much damning evidence in 682 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.840 this case. But you will see you will in the 683 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.960 next part of his opening statement, Johnny Cochrane tried to 684 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.239 reinforce Urge's sports hero legacy. He was a beloved figure 685 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.320 in the black community and Nicole was nothing but a tramp. 686 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.920 He actually used her friend Faz book as a reference 687 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.719 for all of this, talking about their suppose a drug 688 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:05.800 fueled orgies and lesbian hookups. And to me, in my opinion, 689 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.760 that seems as though they're implying that her death was 690 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:13.639 her own fault for getting herself into some questionable situations 691 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.920 and questionable circles. Maybe that's how she ran into someone 692 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:20.000 that murdered her. I don't know, very victim blaming. Another 693 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:23.320 reason that Johnny Cochran believed that urg couldn't possibly be 694 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:26.400 the killer is because he apparently had pretty bad arthritis 695 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:29.199 in his wrists. Johnny said he couldn't even shuffle the 696 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.599 cards when he played Gin Rummy at the country club. 697 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.000 So relatable, don't we all do that? But his point 698 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.320 being that his wrists were so bad that he couldn't 699 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:41.800 possibly savagely murder two people in such a short space 700 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:44.000 of time and then managed to clean it all up, 701 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.599 drive home, pack his cases, and get away with it 702 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:49.880 all in such a short space of time whilst having 703 00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.760 weak risks. All of that summarizes the opening statements, and 704 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.559 to be fair, that kind of summarizes each side's arguments. 705 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.199 The main trial is where we dig deeper in to 706 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.400 all those forensic elements, you know, the blood, the hares, 707 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:07.199 the DNA. So let's start with the blood, because there 708 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.000 was a fucking lot of that one there. Of course, 709 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.239 it was all over the murder scene, it was leading 710 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:14.320 into that back alley, it was all over Urgia's car 711 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.559 and then it was leading into Urja's house and into 712 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:20.559 his fire. That alone makes it sound crazy that there 713 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.760 was a literal trail of blood right from the murder 714 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:27.280 scene into Urgi's house. Well, the prosecution had to prove 715 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.519 that some of the blood found at the crime scene 716 00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.960 was actually urges, and remember in their opening statement they 717 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:35.159 said that it was. So they tried to then back 718 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.400 it up with their proof. Well, I say tried, but 719 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.199 they backed it up. They backed it up. In my opinion, 720 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:43.679 they backed it up. Those blood drops alongside the series 721 00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:46.639 of footprints. All that blood was tested and it was 722 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:49.079 found that it was a one in six point five 723 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:53.760 billion chance that it wasn't URJ Simpson's blood. And there's 724 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.519 only about seven billion people in the world, So if 725 00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:59.360 we want to talk percentages, that means that ninety nine 726 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:03.000 point five seven percent of the population, the whole entire 727 00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:06.400 population of the world, could be excluded as Nicole and 728 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:10.360 Ron's killer one in six point five billion chance that 729 00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:15.320 that blood wasn't his. Just let that room in it 730 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:18.519 in your brain for a Seconji's defense were clearly worried 731 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:20.960 about that evidence. I mean, how do you argue against that? 732 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.960 How do you disprove that you can't. Instead of trying 733 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.000 to disprove the prosecution and any of their evidence, they 734 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.119 actually just kind of ignored that for the most part, 735 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.800 and instead they made Jay the victim of this trial. 736 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:39.079 He was the victim of a giant conspiracy of racist 737 00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:44.119 law enforcement officials. They said that the LAPD had fabricated 738 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.880 and planted evidence in order to frame him for a 739 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:51.920 crime that he didn't commit. The thing was, if o 740 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:55.239 Ja was guilty, and if he did murder two people, 741 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:59.840 the

defense's strategy was playing into some very real experiences 742 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:03.920 decades of racism within the LAPD. There are so so 743 00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:08.760 many legit examples of this happening. For example, the Rodney 744 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.239 King case that happened just a year prior to this trial, 745 00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:15.079 actually not to the trial, to the actual murders of 746 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.920 Nicole and Ron. If you don't know, Rodney King was 747 00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:21.119 a victim of police brutality. In nineteen ninety one. He 748 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.400 was beaten viciously by police while being arrested for driving 749 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:28.320 under the influence. The whole time he was unarmed, he 750 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:32.159 wasn't fighting back. Someone had videoed this. Actually it was 751 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.079 four officers just beating him. He was on the floor, 752 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:39.559 he wasn't fighting back. In the aftermath, that clip went viral, 753 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.320 well viral for the nineteen nineties, you know, it was 754 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.840 on all the news stations, I guess. But unbelievably, those 755 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.760 four officers never saw any consequences for what they did 756 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.559 to Rodney King. In fact, they were acquitted. They were 757 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.880 acquitted of all of the charges against them, just two 758 00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:58.199 months after Nicole and Ron's murders. Of course, the whole 759 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.840 nation that wasn't real and that could empathize with Rodney 760 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.199 King and with the whole black community. Everyone was so upset, 761 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.599 so furious. This brought about riots, protests, and general just 762 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:16.000 hatred and distrust of the police at large, but especially 763 00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:20.519 the LAPD. The LAPD was racist, fact, but oj Simpson, 764 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.840 a black man, was also friends with a lot of 765 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:28.320 the LAPD cops. Also a fact. He was friends with 766 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:32.760 the same starstruck cops that had turned a blind eye 767 00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:37.719 to the potential domestic abuse in his and Nicholl's marriage. 768 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.559 Police had come out to see them about eight times 769 00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:42.360 and nothing was ever done. Are you telling me that 770 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:45.199 that's a coincidence? In my opinion, then there's a reason 771 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.400 that nothing was ever done. When she was literally screaming 772 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.119 on the phone to the police saying that he's gonna 773 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.840 kill her. If that was any other man doing that 774 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.400 to a woman,

I'm sure that something would have been done. 775 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.719 Whether things were done well is a different question, but 776 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:03.599 he would have at least been arrested. There would have 777 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:06.000 been something. But I guess when police were called out 778 00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:08.440 to it, maybe they got to the house and realized 779 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:13.199 it was big ug A Simpson, MVP NFL player, movie star. 780 00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:15.920 Maybe they just turned a blind eye because they liked him. 781 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.719 Who would want to piss off one of the biggest 782 00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.840 and most loved celebrities in the world. Probably not the 783 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:25.480 LAPD Porgia had a lot of friendships with LAPD cops. 784 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:28.079 That's also a fact something to keep in mind. But anyway, 785 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.480 when this trial began, with this new lens that Johnny 786 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.199 Cochrane painted their whole side in aug Simpson became a 787 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:40.360 figure of racist police targeting and brutality. Overnight. He was 788 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:44.960 the current face of victims and if you were to say, well, no, 789 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.679 I think is guilty, or oh, I don't think that's true, 790 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.840 you would be seen as a racist. On June twenty seventh, 791 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.920 Time magazine printed a cover titled An American Tragedy, using 792 00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:58.639 Ouga's mugshot as their main image. But the magazine had 793 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:02.880 touched up this pic they'd made it noticeably darker. The 794 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.320 president of the National Association of Black Journalists said the 795 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.119 cover appeared to be a conscious effort to make Simpson 796 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:12.159 look evil a MACRB to sway the opinion of the 797 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.920 reader to become fixated on his guilt. The prosecution maintained 798 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:18.280 that there was not one part of their case that 799 00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:21.719 was even remotely related to O. J. Simpson's rast. Their 800 00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:25.920 argument was based on cold, hard evidence, facts, and a 801 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:30.000 pretty solid motive. He had a lengthy history of domestic 802 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:33.559 abuse allegations. There was a whole hour of his evening 803 00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:36.559 that was unaccounted for. People saw him act in suspiciously. 804 00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.800 The blood literally at the crime scene was a ninety 805 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.800 nine point five percent chance that it was his. Nicole 806 00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:45.719 even confided in a women's shelter that she thought he 807 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:48.480 was stalking her just five days before this murder. The 808 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.840 prosecution had so much, whether it was like physical evidence 809 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:56.920 or circumstantial evidence or quotes or anything. They had so 810 00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.480 much to prove their side that wasn't related to race 811 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:04.239 in any way. And Urj's team knew how damning all 812 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.199 of the evidence against him was, and that left them 813 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.440 with only one option, really to chip away at the 814 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:15.599 believability of the prosecution's case, putting plausible deniability in the 815 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.960 minds of the audience, because, as you might know, the 816 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:21.920 jury can only convict someone if they are sure beyond 817 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.199 reasonable doubt that they did it. If there's even a 818 00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:27.559 shadow of a doubt in their minds, they're supposed to 819 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:31.760 you know, equit or do I don't know. They can't 820 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.760 vote guilty anyway. So if the defense can successfully cast 821 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:39.320 a shadow of doubt in the jury's minds, then they've won. 822 00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:42.440 This is very similar to the Casey Anthony case if 823 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:47.000 you remember that one. Her defense team's strategy was pretty 824 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.360 much the exact same. First, Urga's team tried to challenge 825 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:53.519 the timeline of the crime and the aftermath. They tried 826 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:55.519 to say that there was no way that he could 827 00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.360 kill two people and then get home and then wash 828 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:00.960 up and then a pea fairy's limar all within one hour, 829 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:04.559 because remember weak wrists. They also argued that the LAPD 830 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.679 had collected the blood and other physical evidence in a 831 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.880 shoddy manner, and also just illegally. They said that without 832 00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.599 a search warrant, it violates the law. They weren't willing 833 00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:18.480 to accept that accept that evidence anyway, because it was 834 00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:21.800 collected unfairly in their eyes. And finally, they argued that 835 00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:25.519 at least one police officer made a conscious effort to 836 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:29.079 frame ur J. Simpson for this murder. And we'll dig 837 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.719 further into that in a bit. We'll dig really far 838 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.960 into that in a bit, but that summarizes his defense. 839 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.800 And they really hoped that all of that could cast 840 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.400 a shadow of doubt in the minds of the jury, 841 00:44:40.800 -->

00:44:43.159 and they could have been right. They were right. Oj 842 00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:46.400 was incredibly confident throughout his trial. He would spend a 843 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:49.079 lot of it just kind of sitting there looking around, doodling. 844 00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:50.760 He had like a piece of paper and pen. He'd 845 00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.280 be doodling. He'd be chatting to his lawyers. In fact, 846 00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:56.079 they'd be chatting at really inappropriate times. A lot of 847 00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:58.519 nine one one calls were played out loud in court, 848 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:01.239 you know the ones where Nicole screaming and crying on 849 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.039 the phone to police saying that he's gonna kill her 850 00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:04.719 and he's gonna beat her up. In one of these 851 00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:08.280 phone calls, Nicole was saying, oh, Ja, o ja, the kids, oja, 852 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:10.519 the kids are sleeping, and as the rest of the 853 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:12.880 court listened along, our Ja was just chatting to his 854 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.920 lawyers through the whole thing. He didn't care. He did 855 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:18.239 not care. And this also gives off the vibe to 856 00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.760 the rest of the court that this evidence isn't important, 857 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.480 You don't need to listen to her. Nicholl's family believed 858 00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:26.280 that j is a murderer. They believe that he killed 859 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:29.320 Nicole and Ron. Her sister Denise told the courts that 860 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.599 from the very first time she ever met Urjay, his 861 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:35.800 actions towards her sister were unpleasant and it only got 862 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.280 worse as the couple got closer. She said that he 863 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:42.360 would humiliate her, yell at her, physically hurt her, call 864 00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:46.039 her horrible things. It was a very powerful moment for 865 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:49.880 the prosecution's side, and so following that, the defense knew 866 00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.159 that they needed to come back with a kicker and 867 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.280 Jesus Christ. Did they remember in their open instatement when 868 00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.199 they were talking all about Detective Mark Furman, the fellow 869 00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.519 that found most of the blood evidence, most of the 870 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:03.480 physical evidence. They were saying, oh, it looks like the 871 00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:06.039 prosecution want to forget about him. Looks like they want 872 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:07.840 to sweep him under the rug. Well, now they were 873 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.639 about to say exactly why the defense accused Detective Mark 874 00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:15.880 Firman of being extremely racist. Again, this relates back to 875 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.239 these white cops just wanting to pin this double homicide 876 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:21.920 on a black man. So the defense got Mark Firman 877 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.840 up on the stand and they made him swear under 878 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:28.079 oath that he had not been racist or used any 879 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.159 kind of racial slurs in the last ten years, I guess, 880 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:33.880 just to prove that he had no ulterior motives in 881 00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.599 wanting to prosecute our j. Simpson. And he swore that 882 00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.239 he hadn't. He swore on Earth that he hadn't, But 883 00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:43.519 the defense had proof that he had. A series of 884 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.679 tips were played for the court from a few years prior. 885 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:49.719 Furman had done an interview with a screenwriter who was 886 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.199 writing this piece all about you know, police or whatever, 887 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:56.519 and she'd interviewed a few different people, especially about police brutality. 888 00:46:56.599 --> 00:47:00.239 And in these tips, Mark Furman said the N word 889 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:06.920 forty times, forty four zero times, and that is just insane. 890 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.639 But the man that found the most physical evidence, the 891 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:13.639 most damning physical evidence in this whole case turns out 892 00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:17.000 to be a racist. It doesn't look good at all, 893 00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.239 does it. This could well support the defense's argument that 894 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:23.719 evidence was planted against Perja, he was framed, he was 895 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:27.480 set up to take the blame for this crime. There 896 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.039 were now a lot of people that believed Mark Furman 897 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:33.960 had planted the blood on his car or planted the 898 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.639 glove in his garden, because he was the one that 899 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:39.679 found them, and he is very racist. So not only 900 00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:43.000 did all of this really really affect Furman's credibility, but 901 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.559 it also meant that he was guilty of perjury. Remember, 902 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:48.320 he swore on oath that he had not been racist, 903 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:50.400 not used a racial slur in the last ten years, 904 00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.440 but these tips were made within the last ten years. 905 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:54.639 They had proof that he had just lied under oath. 906 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:58.679 Johnny Cochrane in court actually called him a lying, perjuring, 907 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.800 genocidal race assist and compared him to Hitler in his 908 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.000 closing argument. After this, Furman had to consult with a lawyer, 909

00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.199 of course, because he'd just kind of gotten himself in shit, 910 00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:11.880 you know, by swearing on oath and then it turning 911 00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:14.079 out to be a lie. He consulted with a lawyer 912 00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.400 who advised him to just not say anything else, just 913 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:20.519 go up there and plead the fifth like use your 914 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.239 right to no comment. But the tricky thing about that, like, 915 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.280 obviously I get why the lawyer would say that, because 916 00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:27.320 he's just gotten himself in a load of trouble. But 917 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.079 the problem with that is that they hadn't finished questioning him. Actually, 918 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:33.840 so the defense brought him back up to the stand 919 00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:36.679 to now question him about blood evidence and all that, 920 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.840 and to every single question, Mark Furman exercised his right 921 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:43.880 to silence. So, for example, with such a simple question 922 00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:47.039 of did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case, 923 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:49.079 he had no choice but to say, I wish to 924 00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.599 assert my Fifth Amendment privilege, And this, of course worked 925 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:56.360 perfectly for the defense. He could not, and so he 926 00:48:56.440 --> 00:49:01.440 did not outright deny planting any evidence. Crazy crazy crazy. 927 00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:05.519 Moving on, next up to the stand was a forensic criminologist. 928 00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:08.400 Now I don't think he was supposed to be on 929 00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:10.239 either side. I think he was supposed to be a 930 00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:14.440 neutral entity in this case, just to present the physical evidence. 931 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.039 But when you think about it, the physical evidence is 932 00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:19.679 kind of on the prosecution's side. So even though this 933 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:21.920 guy is neutral, what he's about to present is going 934 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.599 to look good for the prosecution, or at least you 935 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:27.559 would hope. Hey, because when this guy went to sit 936 00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:31.199 up there on the stand, he fumbled. He fumbled so 937 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:33.840 hard he let the defense get into his head. They 938 00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:36.760 managed to make him sound bad at his job, even 939 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.400 though this was one of the best criminologists in the 940 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:41.400 field at that time. That's why he was put on 941 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:44.039 this case. I don't know, man, That defense team seemed 942 00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.280 very persuasive and very good with words. Under questioning, the 943 00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:50.440 criminologist admitted that Nicole's body had been moved by the 944 00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:53.480 time he arrived at the scene. Doesn't look good. Both 945 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:56.280 bodies were removed before he'd even finished collecting all the 946 00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.280 evidence from the scene. Again not good. He admitted that 947 00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.800 it had taken him longer than usual to get to 948 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:04.360 the murder scene, longer than a usual case would take him, 949 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.760 and that he had not collected a mysterious piece of 950 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:10.599 paper that appears in a videotip of the crime scene. 951 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:12.960 So we have no idea what that was. We don't 952 00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.320 have that. Well, the police never had that in their possession. 953 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.159 There was a piece of paper and then there wasn't. 954 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:19.760 So even though all of the physical evidence looked bad, 955 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.559 they made the criminologists that got all of that evidence 956 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.320 look bad at his job, so it loses a lot 957 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.000 of credibility. By the end of his cross examination, this 958 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.800 criminologist left the stand and walked back to where he 959 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:33.360 was sitting. But on his way he was met with 960 00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:37.440 handshakes and hugs from the defense, from the dream team 961 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:41.320 of lawyers, because he'd flocked so hard that they essentially 962 00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.719 saw him as the hero of their side. He'd fumbled 963 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.400 and it made them look good. That was supposed to 964 00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:50.480 be the one thing that the prosecution had in the bag, 965 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:54.880 the physical evidence, the blood, the DNA, But now all 966 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:56.480 of that was going to be swept under the rug. 967 00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:59.280 But somehow that is trumped by the fact that the 968 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:03.639 defense managed to trip up the criminologist on some minor things. Now, 969 00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:07.760 let's talk about probably the most infamous part of the 970 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:13.000 whole Urgia Simpson murder trial. The gloves. The gloves. So remember, 971 00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.599 just for a recap, the left glove was found covered 972 00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:17.599 in blood at the murder scene, and the right glove 973 00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:20.559 was found just kind of dropped on the floor outside 974 00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:25.119 Urge's house. Weird. So these gloves themselves were extra large 975 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:28.639 leather gloves. And Urjai was a big fella, isn't he, 976 00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.760 so he had to get these like special

sized gloves. 977 00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:34.719 His hands are forking huge. And actually the prosecution believed 978 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:38.199 that they had found the receipt for this exact pair 979 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:41.719 of gloves in Nicole's house, so they believed she must 980 00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:44.480 have bought them for him as a present at some point. 981 00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.159 And apparently they weren't a very common type of glove. 982 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:49.480 I mean, they were designer first of all, which means 983 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.480 half the population probably wouldn't want to buy a very 984 00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:55.519 pricey pair of leather gloves. There were brown leather as well, 985 00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:58.559 not black, and I mean, I know brown isn't necessarily 986 00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.119 a rare color, but I feel like people would opt 987 00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:03.199 for black rather than brown. And of course they were 988 00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:06.400 extra large. They were extra large. He's an extra large man. 989 00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:09.480 And also with the receipt, I mean, sir, The gloves 990 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:12.320 were brought into the courtroom and when the defense looked 991 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.519 at them, they thought they seemed a lot smaller than 992 00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.159 they remembered. This can happen to leather if it's frozen 993 00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:23.320 and refrozen for like evidence purposes being tested and then 994 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:25.840 like never stretched out again in between. And there's also 995 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:29.400 the fact that blood can literally shrink leather. They were 996 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.199 covered in leather and and now they were cleaned up, 997 00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:34.760 So yeah, maybe the leather was tighter than it once 998 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:37.760 was at one point in time. But the defense saw 999 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:40.119 these gloves sitting there, and they looked smaller than they 1000 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:42.960 were before, and they got the idea that maybe they 1001 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.559 could get Urjia to try these gloves on, and they 1002 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:49.360 might not fit. The courtroom fell silent, and for several 1003 00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:53.119 agonizing moments, Urjae struggled to get the gloves onto his 1004 00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:56.800 hands and eventually gave up. He could get them pretty 1005 00:52:56.960 --> 00:53:00.280 much on, but with a struggle, and they didn't look 1006 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.840 like they fit right. But a lot of people think 1007 00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:06.599 he was doing this intentionally, like he kind of kept 1008 00:53:06.599 --> 00:53:09.440 his thumb bent outwards from the rest of his hand 1009 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.559 as he was pulling it in. That kind of makes 1010 00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:14.480 your hand the widest it can possibly be, doesn't it. 1011 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:16.440 I mean, if he really wanted to squeeze on a glove, 1012 00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:19.480 you would kind of, you know, but he didn't. But 1013 00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.599 regardless of the reasons why this might be, he just 1014 00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:25.719 couldn't seem to get the glove on either way. And 1015 00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:29.920 with that came Johnny Cochrane's famous saying, if it doesn't fit, 1016 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:33.159 you must equit. That's one of the most famous parts 1017 00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:36.440 of the j Simpson trial because they were so adamant 1018 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:39.079 that these gloves did not fit him. If it doesn't fit, 1019 00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:41.199 you must equip. You hear that all the time in 1020 00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.760 relation to the Simpson case. In Johnny Cochrane's closing statement, 1021 00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:47.960 he encouraged the jury to put an end to what 1022 00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.880 he believed to be a cover up, to what he 1023 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.840 believed to be corruption. He said, if you don't stop it, 1024 00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.440 then who do you think the police department is going 1025 00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:58.960 to stop it? Do you think the DA's office is 1026 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:00.960 going to stop it? I think we can stop it 1027 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.000 by ourselves. It has to be stopped by you. And 1028 00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:07.719 he's saying this to a jury of mostly black citizens 1029 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.239 that are of course going to feel a certain way 1030 00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:13.280 about this black man being prosecuted for a crime that 1031 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.199 has been made out during this trial to be a 1032 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:20.119 racist cover up. Of course, hearing this will spur some 1033 00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:24.079 feelings and potentially some actions from them. In the prosecution's 1034 00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:27.760 closing statement, Marsha Clark started out by addressing the whole 1035 00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:31.440 Detective Mark Furman Fiasca, She said, did he lie when 1036 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:33.920 he testified here in this courtroom saying that he did 1037 00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:37.480 not use racial epithets in the last ten years? Yes? 1038 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:41.280 Is he a racist? Yes? Is he the worst LAPD 1039 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:44.519 has to offer? Yes? Do we wish that this person 1040 00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:47.519 was never hired by the LAPD. Yes. But the fact 1041 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.400 that Mark Furman is a racist and lied about it 1042 00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:52.719 on the witness stand does not mean that we haven't 1043 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:56.000 proven the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And it 1044 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.480 would be a tragedy if with such

overwhelming evidence, ladies 1045 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:01.719 and gentlemen, and as we have presented to you, you 1046 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:04.519 would find the defendant not guilty in spite of all 1047 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:08.519 of that, because of the racist attitudes of one police officer. Now, 1048 00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:11.599 before we close out the trial and get to the verdict, 1049 00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:13.960 I want to talk about a couple of points that 1050 00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:17.639 weren't actually brought up through this court trial for different reasons, 1051 00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:20.480 but I think they're very interesting and I want you 1052 00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:24.000 to hear them before we, you know, before we get 1053 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:27.400 to the final verdict. The first being that oj Simpson 1054 00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:33.559 literally confessed, allegedly, allegedly his friend Rosie Grier was a 1055 00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:36.480 former NFL player that's how he met him. But Rosie 1056 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:40.440 had since retired and become a pastor, a very religious figure, 1057 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:43.239 and when he came to visit Ourja when he was 1058 00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:46.679 arrested and he was in police custody, Oja supposedly kind 1059 00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:49.800 of confessed to him in a bit of a sin confessional, 1060 00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.559 and supposedly this was overheard by a prison guard, So 1061 00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:56.320 there were two people that heard this alleged confession. But 1062 00:55:56.920 --> 00:56:01.000 because it was like a religious thing, it's supposed to 1063 00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:05.079 be confidential and therefore couldn't have been used in cart. 1064 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:07.559 Now I'm not gonna lie. I don't fully understand this. 1065 00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:10.440 All I know is that it's been said that Ourja 1066 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:13.639 has confessed to this Rosie Greer and a police officer 1067 00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.280 overheard it, but it couldn't be used in court because 1068 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:20.639 of the religious boundaries within how it was said. I'm 1069 00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:24.480 not entirely sure. Honestly, legal stuff really really confuses me. Like, 1070 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:26.639 no wonder I wasn't a lawyer, because I'm sat here 1071 00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:28.519 going like, can't we use it? Like if he said it, 1072 00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:31.400 he said it, I don't care who he said it 1073 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.320 to it. If he said it, we could probably use it. 1074 00:56:33.360 --> 00:56:35.519 And something else that came across in my research that 1075 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.880 I personally found super interesting. But again it wasn't brought 1076 00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:41.159 up in court at all. It wasn't part of the case. 1077 00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:46.880 But J Simpson was actually knife combat

trained. Can you believe? 1078 00:56:47.159 --> 00:56:50.039 Just before this whole case, he was booked for a 1079 00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:53.039 TV movie called Frogmen, and he was like the main 1080 00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:56.360 star of it. He'd like really moved into acting towards 1081 00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:58.880 the end of his sporting career because at this point, 1082 00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.679 what he was like forty something and he was a celebrity, 1083 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.880 and you know how celebrities just get like movie cameos 1084 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.760 and TV show cameos and stuff. He was doing quite 1085 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.760 a bit of that in the run up to this trial. 1086 00:57:09.960 --> 00:57:13.760 And actually Frogmen never aired because it got finished like 1087 00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:18.000 just before their main star got accused of double homicides, 1088 00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.079 so they never released it. It was supposed to be 1089 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:23.960 like an a team combat action style movie, and like 1090 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.679 I say, o, J was the lead character. He was 1091 00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:28.840 like the leader of a gang, and he had a 1092 00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:32.480 lot of knife fighting scenes, so he had to be 1093 00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:38.239 specially trained in knife combat or specifically like stage knife combat, 1094 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:40.639 but either way, the moves were the same. And it 1095 00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:44.079 turns out that this training was done with the exact 1096 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:48.199 same type of knife that was used to kill Ron 1097 00:57:48.199 --> 00:57:50.519 and Nicole. And this type of knife isn't like a 1098 00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:52.880 majorly common one. It's not like a kitchen knife that 1099 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:56.400 everyone has. It's like a special like combat like dagger 1100 00:57:57.039 --> 00:58:00.039 type knife, one that you can't get like everywhere. I 1101 00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:03.159 don't know, just a little interesting thing that I found, 1102 00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:06.119 but that rounds off all of the evidence. And by 1103 00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:10.199 now the jury were absolutely exhausted. It had been eleven 1104 00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:15.119 months of such intense work, like hearing all these desperate 1105 00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:19.280 phone calls from Nicole pleading with Ojia to stop and 1106 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:21.639 pleading with the police to help her. And there was 1107 00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:24.719 the whiplash of like the prosecution bringing up some really 1108 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.639 valid evidence and then the defense finding a way to 1109 00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:30.239 just like throw it off. Like it was a very 1110 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:33.719 like shaky trial. I imagine. It was a lot of hard work, 1111 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:36.360 a very stressful job. And actually at this point, a 1112 00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:40.119 lot of jury members were getting diagnosed with depression and anxiety. 1113 00:58:40.280 --> 00:58:42.519 They were having to go on medication because they hadn't 1114 00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:46.159 seen their families in eleven months through this whole trial. 1115 00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:49.840 They weren't allowed proper contact with their families, only supervised contact. 1116 00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.559 They were only allowed to watch certain movies. They couldn't 1117 00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:56.039 read the papers, they couldn't do anything. Sorry, my cat 1118 00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.000 just jumped upon the desk. Oh my god, and now 1119 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.480 she's grabbing hold of the microphone. Girl, make you your 1120 00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:03.239 own channel. And actually, at this point, the jurors, because 1121 00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:06.199 they'd only really been able to spend time with each other, 1122 00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:09.000 they were essentially on lockdown from the rest of the world. 1123 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:11.760 They could only really conversate with each other. And because 1124 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.320 this case was bringing out some deep, deep feelings in 1125 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:18.039 these people, there were a lot of conflicts, Like they 1126 00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:21.559 weren't friends, these jurors. They would have these movie nights 1127 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:24.480 where they were only able to watch like selected films, 1128 00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:28.079 and these movie nights would often end in big arguments. 1129 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:30.920 And actually when they would eat all of their meals together, 1130 00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:33.960 by the end of the trial, they all started like 1131 00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.239 eating separately from each other. They were segregated pretty much 1132 00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.440 by race. From their own volition. They didn't want to 1133 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:42.320 sit with each other because it seemed that the white 1134 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.920 jurors were on the prosecution's side or leaning to the 1135 00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:48.960 prosecution side, and the black jurors were definitely on urge's 1136 00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:52.760 side because they saw this as corruption, as a racist 1137 00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:56.639 targeting cover up, and they were on his side already. 1138 00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:59.159 One of the jurors had been quoted saying, and this 1139 00:59:59.199 --> 01:00:01.119 is a bit of a confused and quotes, so forgive me. 1140 01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:03.679 But they said there maybe a person that, say, one 1141 01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:06.400 of the Caucasians will say I can't vote him not 1142 01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:08.679 guilty because when I walk out of here, I want 1143 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:11.079 to walk back into a life, Or an African American 1144 01:00:11.159

--> 01:00:13.519 might say I can't say he's guilty because I want 1145 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:16.079 to walk out of here. All of these jury members 1146 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.480 feared how they would be treated by their own community 1147 01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:23.320 once they leave the perimeters of this trial based on 1148 01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:26.440 how they voted. So a lot of the black jurors 1149 01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:30.280 felt obligated to vote not guilty for this black man 1150 01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:35.239 that they believe is being done badly. And the white jurors, 1151 01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:39.119 as much as they kind of leaned towards the prosecution, 1152 01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:41.880 they were also kind of feeling the same way that 1153 01:00:41.960 --> 01:00:44.519 if they were to vote guilty, then they would be 1154 01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.719 viewed as racist because of how this case had been 1155 01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:50.559 made out and everyone truly believed that our Ja was 1156 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:54.039 a victim, then these white jurors would look awful, They 1157 01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:57.360 would look evil. So it becomes less about like actually 1158 01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:01.400 fairly and objectively judging this case, and it becomes more 1159 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.000 about how do I look How will the way that 1160 01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:06.440 I vote make me look to the rest of the world. 1161 01:01:06.519 --> 01:01:09.639 The defense had successfully done what they set out to do, 1162 01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:12.960 make people vote based on how they would be seen 1163 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:16.719 through the lens of racism versus how they truly felt 1164 01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:19.760 about the evidence in this case. So now when the 1165 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:21.840 trial ended, it was time for the jury to go 1166 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.599 off and deliberate and go over all the information that 1167 01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:27.760 they'd been given over the last eleven months and then 1168 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:31.360 finally come to a verdict. Of course, this deliberation was 1169 01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:35.960 expected to take a long time, potentially weeks, because there 1170 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:39.119 was so much evidence, so much information to go over 1171 01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:43.239 and to think about. But actually it took four hours. 1172 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:46.199 Four hours. There's a lot of cases where it takes 1173 01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:48.239 at least a couple of days and there's like a 1174 01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:51.400 quarter of the information that there was in this case. 1175 01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:53.519 I think that says a lot in itself that they 1176 01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:55.639 all got into this room and they only had a 1177 01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:59.280 four hour conversation to consolidate the last eleven months of 1178 01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:02.320 their lives. So four hours later, when the jury walked 1179 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:05.800 back into that courtroom, over one hundred and fifty million 1180 01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:09.000 people were watching live as they gave their verdict. 1181 01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:10.920 With the jury and the above in title action find 1182 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:14.440 the Defendant or Orenthal James Simpson not guilty of the 1183 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:17.360 crime of murder in violation of penal cult Section one 1184 01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:21.159 eighty seven a a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson a 1185 01:02:21.239 --> 01:02:23.800 human being as charged and count one of the information. 1186 01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:27.519 You can see the relief in everyone's faces, like Urja 1187 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.840 can't physically stop his smile from peeking through all his 1188 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:35.199 lawyers are hugging him and congratulating him. But did you 1189 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.920 notice Rob Kardashian's face when the verdict was read out. 1190 01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:43.159 He seemed almost disappointed. He wasn't smiling, he wasn't celebrating 1191 01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:47.400 straight away. And it's been said that Rob Kardashian started 1192 01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:50.639 to change his mind halfway through the trial, or halfway 1193 01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:54.159 through working with Urja Simpson. He changed his mind and 1194 01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:56.639 thought that maybe he shouldn't be fighting to get this 1195 01:02:56.760 --> 01:02:59.559 man off of these murder charges. Some people believe that 1196 01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.480 kardash She might have thought right from the beginning, like 1197 01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:06.239 deep down the Urja was guilty, but he agreed to 1198 01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:09.440 be part of his legal team anyway. For career purposes. 1199 01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:11.599 I mean, of course, this was the trial of the century. 1200 01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:13.639 It was really going to put all those lawyers on 1201 01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:16.159 the map. If they could get j Simpson off of 1202 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:19.719 this case, they would be the lawyers of la It 1203 01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:22.199 was said that Chris Jenner, his wife at the time, 1204 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:26.719 was really unhappy with him being on Urga's legal team 1205 01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:29.320 because they were friends with Urj and Nicole as a 1206 01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:33.159 couple before they divorced. They would go out with them 1207 01:03:33.159 --> 01:03:35.719 all the time. Chris was super close with Nicole, Rob 1208 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:40.000 was super close with Urjay, and Chris was really upset 1209 01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:44.039 with Rob for defending Urja. So it's thought that maybe 1210 01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:46.280 when that verdict was read out, I mean, all of 1211 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:49.599 this is alleged and conspiracy

and whatever, just what people 1212 01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.159 think could have been happening. But they think that when 1213 01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:55.360 that verdict was read out, Rob Kardashian wasn't very proud 1214 01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:57.639 of himself and wasn't very proud of what he'd just 1215 01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:01.239 fought for. On the day of the verdict, Urge's son 1216 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:04.119 read out a statement that was written by his dad. 1217 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:06.559 It said, I am relieved that this part of the 1218 01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:10.039 incredible nightmare that occurred on June twelfth, nineteen ninety four 1219 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:13.280 is over with. My obligation is to my young children, 1220 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:15.280 who will be raised the way that Nicole and I 1221 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:18.639 always planned. My second obligation is to my family and 1222 01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:21.519 to those friends who never wavered their support. And when 1223 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:24.800 things have settled, I will pursue as my primary goal 1224 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:28.400 in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and 1225 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:31.280 mister Goldman. They're out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to 1226 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:34.320 identify them and bring them in, I will provide it somehow. 1227 01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:37.960 I only hope that someday, despite every prejudicial thing that 1228 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.559 has been said about me publicly, both in and out 1229 01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:43.119 of the courtroom, people will come to understand and believe 1230 01:04:43.159 --> 01:04:47.199 that I would not, could not, and did not kill anyone. 1231 01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:52.280 So URJ. Simpson is legally not the murderer, and no 1232 01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:55.320 one else has ever been found or charged or convicted 1233 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.760 or even really looked into as Nicole and Ron's murderer. 1234 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:02.159 That's just it now, So technically, to this day, the 1235 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:06.800 murders of Nicole Brown, Simpson and Ron Goldman remain unsolved. 1236 01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:11.199 Oh another BuzzFeed unsolved moment. Hey, there were very mixed 1237 01:05:11.239 --> 01:05:15.639 reactions all over America all over the world to this verdict. 1238 01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:19.800 But still despite his freedom, and despite his official non 1239 01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:24.440 guilty verdict, he was dropped from his personal agent and 1240 01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:27.320 the talent agency that he'd been with for twenty years. 1241 01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.440 I guess no one wants to represent someone that a 1242 01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:35.000 lot of people still believed to be a murderer. Maybe allegedly. 1243 01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:37.639 He also lost a lot of friends after this trial. 1244 01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:40.559 I mean, Paul's showed that over half the country was 1245 01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:45.159 outraged by this verdict. Over half the country strongly disagreed 1246 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:48.719 with the findings. They believe that Oja legally got away 1247 01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:51.599 with murder. Sure, he'd gotten off of his murder chargers, 1248 01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:55.679 but half the nation hated him. Oj fell from grace 1249 01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:59.360 in a way that very few celebrities have after the trial, 1250 01:05:59.719 --> 01:06:04.960 after everything was fully settled, Ron Goldman's father actually filed 1251 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:08.239 a civil lawsuit against ur J Simpson, this time for 1252 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:12.719 the wrongful deaths of Ron and Nicole. So not necessarily 1253 01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:15.840 saying that Urj is a murderer because he's found, you know, 1254 01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:19.320 legally not guilty of that. But in nineteen ninety seven, 1255 01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:24.400 Urja Simpson was found liable for Nicole and Ron's deaths. Now, 1256 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:26.639 what does that mean? You're not a murderer, but you 1257 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:30.039 are liable for their deaths. He was ordered to pay 1258 01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:34.800 thirty three million dollars to the families of the victims 1259 01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:38.400 or you know, the wrongful deaths that he was liable for. 1260 01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:41.559 He was ordered to pay thirty three million, but he 1261 01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:44.159 has only ever paid less than half a million. And 1262 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:47.159 you would think that this case would end there. You 1263 01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:51.079 would think that after such a close call, ourj would 1264 01:06:51.079 --> 01:06:52.960 probably want to stay out of trouble and stay out 1265 01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:55.039 of jail for the rest of his life. But actually 1266 01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:57.639 it seems it kind of went the other way. He 1267 01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:01.199 feels invincible now, like he could do anything and get 1268 01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:03.960 away with anything, and he'll he'll always be fine. He's 1269 01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:08.039 Urja Simpson. In two thousand and eight, fourteen years after 1270 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:13.000 the murders, j Simpson was convicted of kidnapping an armed robbery. 1271 01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:16.559 Along with three other men, Urja stormed into a Vegas 1272 01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:20.679 hotel and casino and stole a load of sports memorabilia 1273 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.239 from traders. They went in there with their guns raised 1274 01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.519 and at gunpoint, they pulled these two traders like into 1275 01:07:28.559 --> 01:07:31.440 another room, I think actually into one of the hotel rooms, 1276 01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:35.519 and they kidnapped them, like held them their hostage until 1277 01:07:35.559 -->

01:07:39.199 they offered up the memorabilia that Urja wanted. Now, I 1278 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:42.239 believe the reason that all of this happened was because 1279 01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:44.880 it was like his memorabilia. It was like I don't 1280 01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:47.000 know for sure, but I think it was like, you know, 1281 01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:50.880 like Urja Simpson's jersey and Da da da, and he 1282 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:53.599 was kind of using the excuse of, well, it's mine anyway, 1283 01:07:53.639 --> 01:07:55.400 and I want it back. But I guess you didn't 1284 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.840 have to go in there and fucking kidnap them at 1285 01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:00.400 gunpoint to be able to get it. Oja and those 1286 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:02.599 three other men were all caught by police and they 1287 01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:04.880 were all convicted. They were all taken to trial and 1288 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:08.119 sentenced to thirty three years in prison. But did he 1289 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:11.280 serve all of that, Well, absolutely not. Don't be silly. 1290 01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:15.360 He was released less than five years later in twenty thirteen, 1291 01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:18.760 and jo Simpson has been a free man ever since. 1292 01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:21.920 In the aftermath of all of this case, and I 1293 01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:25.079 mean the murder case, not the kidnapping and armed robbery, 1294 01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:28.199 In the aftermath of his murder trial of the century, 1295 01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:30.399 Ourja decided it would be a good idea to write 1296 01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:32.560 a book about the whole thing. The book was called 1297 01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:37.800 If I Did It, And it's a hypothetical account of 1298 01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:42.319 how jo Simpson would have murdered Ron and Nicole if 1299 01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:47.520 he was the killer, which is so like every detail 1300 01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:51.279 in that book is exactly what the prosecution was saying 1301 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:54.119 happened on the night of the murders, like down to 1302 01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.680 how he changed clothes, and you know, like where he 1303 01:08:57.760 --> 01:08:59.840 parked the car in the alley to be able to 1304 01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:04.439 get away, Like everything was so spot on. It's so frustrating. 1305 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:09.039 It's almost like a confessional. But you know, legally he's 1306 01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:12.920 not the murderer, but everything seems down to a t 1307 01:09:13.239 --> 01:09:16.880 what the murderer actually did to Nicole and Ron. So 1308 01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:20.239 that's that's interesting this they're suspicious, but don't worry too 1309 01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:23.920 much because Ron Goldman's family actually ended up suing and 1310 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:27.600 getting the rights to this book and they re published 1311 01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:31.000

it with a new cover, which is amazing. It's still 1312 01:09:31.039 --> 01:09:33.560 called if I Did It, but they've kind of hidden 1313 01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:37.159 the if inside one of the letters, so when you 1314 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:39.479 straight up look at this cover, it just looks like 1315 01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:42.119 it says I did it. That is so clever. I 1316 01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:45.159 love that so much. Ten percent of the profits of 1317 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:50.479 this book do go to relieving Urge's like debt his bankruptcy. 1318 01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:53.279 He went bankrupt from, you know, having to pay so 1319 01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:56.760 much money for that wrongful death lawsuit, and the Goldman 1320 01:09:56.840 --> 01:09:59.640 family had to agree to that ten percent in order 1321 01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:01.319 to be of to get the rights to the book, 1322 01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:04.159 so whatever. But the rest of the profits are split 1323 01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:07.000 between two charities. Both of them are no longer active. 1324 01:10:07.079 --> 01:10:10.279 But the first one was the Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation. 1325 01:10:10.560 --> 01:10:15.760 That was a domestic violence charity that supported victims in crisis, 1326 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.079 like in the immediate aftermath of them fleeing their abusive 1327 01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:22.239 partner and things like that. It sheltered women, it overall 1328 01:10:22.319 --> 01:10:26.079 just educated people on domestic violence. And the other charity 1329 01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:30.000 was the Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice, and they supported 1330 01:10:30.119 --> 01:10:33.279 just kind of any victims of any crimes that were 1331 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:36.239 done wrongly too and now they're left suffering. It was 1332 01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:39.960 just help for any victims. Because neither of those charities 1333 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:42.760 are still running as far as I'm aware, we will 1334 01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:46.199 leave some other kind of domestic violence charity links in 1335 01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:48.479 the description of this video. This has been a very 1336 01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:51.960 very heavy case. But like I said in the beginning 1337 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:54.640 of the whole series, I am very excited to read 1338 01:10:54.640 --> 01:10:57.439 the comments on this because it is such a polarizing case, 1339 01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:00.319 I mean less so in today as well. I think 1340 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:01.920 a lot of us can look back at this case 1341 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:04.680 and kind of, you know, truthfully, if we're being if 1342 01:11:04.720 --> 01:11:06.840 we're being honest with ourselves, we can kind of figure 1343 01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:09.000 out what happened at the time. I guess people were 1344 01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:12.000 just very very swept up by that defense team. They 1345 01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:14.119 really had a way with words. But yeah, thank you 1346 01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:16.359 so so much for watching this video and for watching 1347 01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:18.800 this whole series. It's been such a project for me 1348 01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:21.680 and my team, but we've really enjoyed working on this one. 1349 01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:24.239 If there's any other like big mammoth cases that you 1350 01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:26.880 want us to deep dive into, let us know, because 1351 01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:29.279 I'm loving a deep dive at the moment. Thanks again 1352 01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:31.920 to Incognate for sponsoring this video. 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