OJ Simpson Murder Trial Verdict Remembered 25 Years Later

The 20th Century is filled with high-profile legal proceedings. Gangsters such as Al Capone and John Gotti faced justice. Notorious serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer even saw their trials televised to the nation. But it’s the trial that followed a 1994 double-homicide in Los Angeles that many still tout as the “Trial of the Century.” And 25 years ago last Saturday, one of the most infamous verdicts was read aloud on live television.

“… we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant Orenthal James Simpson not guilty …”

On Oct. 3, 1995, OJ Simpson, a former football player turned TV pitchman and actor, was found not guilty of the June 12, 1994 deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman — a waiter and friend of Nicole Brown Simpson. University of South Dakota Law School Dean Neil Fulton recently sat down with the Press & Dakotan to discuss the case and its impact 25 years later… read more >