"Simpson's wife killing case" that shocked the world
Simpson was charged with double murder.
1June, 994 12 The LAPD immediately rushed to the scene after receiving the report. Two bodies were found in the villa, a man and a woman. The woman lying on the steps inside the security door is Nicole Brown, the shopkeeper. The ex-wife of Simpson, a famous American sports star, had her throat cut. The man lying on the sidewalk was 25-year-old Ronald Goldman. He had 20 wounds and showed signs of struggle before he died. After autopsy, the forensic doctor concluded that they were killed by sharp weapons on the afternoon of June 2 1 1.
From the analysis of the murder scene, it doesn't look like a murder. Because Nicole's family property was not lost, Nicole and Simpson's two children slept indoors without any alarm. The police initially concluded that this was an indoor murder. Fortunately, Simpson was listed as the prime suspect. Simpson 1947 was born on April 9, 1947 in the black residential area of Portrio Connecticut Avenue in San Francisco, USA. He used to be the most famous football player in America, and now he is the most popular person in America. From 65438 to 0977, Simpson met Nicole, who was 18 years old. From 65438 to 0978, the two developed into lovers. Fortunately, Simpson divorced his wife, moved in with Nicole on 1985, and gave birth to a son and a daughter. After marriage, the relationship between them was tense and they often quarreled. Simpson was sentenced by the Los Angeles District Court to 30 days' imprisonment, suspended for two years, fined 7,000 yuan, provided public service 120 hours, and received psychological counseling twice a week for six weeks. The police suspect Simpson of murder.
Chasing a murderer
1June, 994 12, Simpson waited for the driver to take him to Los Angeles at home. 1 145 flies to Chicago and arrives at Chicago Plaza Hotel at 6: 15. At 7: 40, the police informed him that his ex-wife had been killed and he would return to Los Angeles quickly. At 9: 4 1, Simpson flew to los Angeles. After Simpson left the hotel, the police searched his room 9 15 and found blood and broken glass on towels and sheets. LAPD also searched Simpson's villa and found a bloody glove. This glove matches another glove found at the murder scene.
When Simpson arrived at Los Angeles Yard, he was taken back to the police station by the police and handcuffed. After his lawyer Weizmann protested, the handcuffs were removed. When Simpson was tried at the police station, he refused to admit murder. Simpson hired Robert Shapiro, a famous lawyer, as his defense lawyer. 17 At 8: 30 on June, the Los Angeles prosecutor informed Shapiro that the police were going to arrest Simpson and asked him to hand over Simpson in the morning 1 1. Shapiro conveyed the prosecutor's decision to Simpson. 1 1: 30, Shapiro found Simpson. At this time, Simpson was sitting in Collins' car, holding a gun to his head and trying to commit suicide. Collins contacted the police by telephone. Persuaded by the police and friends, Simpson agreed not to run away again. At 7: 57 pm, he arrived at Simpson's residence. At 8: 45 pm, he was taken to the Los Angeles detention center by the police, and Simpson was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Which is to kill Nicole and Goldman. If convicted, they will be sentenced to life imprisonment or death.
Prosecution and defense
Simpson invited the most famous American lawyers to form a defense team to defend him, including Shapiro, Bailey, dershowitz, Cochrane-DeMan, Li Changyu and so on. The prosecutors of the prosecution are eight people, including Gasti Clark and Hodgman. The lineup of both sides is strong and attracts worldwide attention. On June 30th 1994, the preliminary hearing began. On July 7, after pre-trial debate, the judge ruled: "The existing evidence has indicated the following crimes, and there is sufficient reason to believe that the defendant has committed the alleged crimes." On July 22nd, 1994, Judge Ito of Los Angeles Supreme Court officially announced that Simpson's case was accepted and tried by jury. 1October 3 1 12 Jurors form a jury. 199565438+1October 24th, the trial was formally held.
The main evidence of prosecution is:
(1) Simpson Rockingham Villa found a bloody glove. This glove is a common brand of Simpson, and it is just a pair with the other one found at the crime scene. According to the inspection and analysis, the gloves have the fiber material of Goldman shirt; Brown and Goldman's hair; Wild horses have fiber materials and black hair. After laboratory analysis, the blood on the gloves belonged to Brown Goldman and Simpson.
(2) Blood was found on the socks under Simpson's bedroom bed. By DNA analysis, it conforms to the genetic characteristics of Simpson and Brown.
(3) The blood found at the back door of the crime scene is clean, pure and unpolluted because it is not at the crime scene. According to DNA analysis, the blood belongs to Simpson;
(4) Simpson found many bloodstains in the Mustang, and there were bloodstains on the door, floor and dashboard. The blood on the car door matches Simpson's DNA characteristics; The blood on the dashboard belongs to Simpson and Brown Goldman. There is brown's blood on the carpet inside the car;
(5) The blood found at the crime scene conforms to Simpson's DNA characteristics, and a drop of Simpson's blood is proved to be Simpson's blood by routine serum analysis;
(6) Hair and clothing fibers were found at the crime scene. A knitted ski cap at the crime scene has Simpson's hair and fibers from the mustang carpet. The dark blue fiber found on Goldman's shirt is consistent with the bloody gloves found in Simpson's Rockingham Villa and the socks found in Simpson's bedroom.
(7) Bloody footprints were found at the crime scene, with different sizes. 12, the same size as Simpson's shoes. The department store that sells shoes is Simpson's frequent store;
(8) A small amount of blood was found in the driveway, lobby, bathroom sink and bathtub of Luojinhan Villa.
The defense believes that:
(1) After the police found the murder case, they went straight to Simpson's house without obtaining a search warrant as required, and the way of obtaining evidence was seriously illegal;
(2) The police actually wrote the wrong reason on the search warrant that was reissued later, indicating that the police's handling ability is low and they are seriously dereliction of duty;
(3) The police investigators failed to completely protect the crime scene. They took a blanket from Brown's house and covered the victim. It became a question who was the hair and fiber found on the victim. Before taking hair fiber samples from the corpse, the corpse was dragged and moved in the hospital, which increased the possibility that the corpse was contaminated by other people's hair and fibers.
(4) The police officer who conducted the on-site investigation failed to inform the coroner and forensic doctor to go to the autopsy in time according to the work regulations stipulated by the Los Angeles Police Department, and the credibility of the evidence extracted at the scene was in doubt;
(5) The LAPD forensic doctor who searched the scene did not suck a lot of blood at the back door of the crime scene at that time, nor did he find blood on Simpson's socks. A few weeks later, they took a blood sample from Simpson and found the blood.
(6) The forensic doctor of LAPD did not calculate the amount of blood and bloodstains collected at the scene, nor did he calculate the amount after drying, nor did he calculate the amount of each laboratory analysis;
(7) Foreman, a police witness, is biased against blacks, and often calls blacks niggers. He once asked the tenants for Simpson's car keys, which may be planted.
(8) The prosecution witness Dennis Fang appeared in court to prove the validity of the evidence collected, but the defense had to admit that it was a fatal mistake to cover Nicole's body with a blanket after cross-examination in court; The police did not call criminologists to the scene in time; Simpson's mustang was not surrounded by a police belt; Brought the gloves found at Simpson's house to the scene of the attack; Do not wear latex gloves to extract evidence; The four drops of blood beside Simpson's car were not recorded, and the blood drops were gone. Physical evidence is polluted;
(9) The prosecution witness Robyn Croton, the laboratory director of Celma Company, appeared in court to prove that the scientific DNA blood sample for DNA testing was similar to Simpson's blood sample, and pointed out that Simpson was the provider of the blood sample found at the scene. The defense first pointed out that the statistical method of DNA analysis is not completely reliable, and blood samples may deteriorate for up to 7 hours in a hot truck in June. An example of Celma's DNA detection shows that the reliability of the existing detection results is questionable.
Jury trial
The jury in Simpson's case consists of 8 African-Americans, 2 Hispanics, 1 American Indians and 1 Caucasian. Four men and four women. Two people on the jury have high school or above educational background. According to the questionnaire, the jury members in Simpson's case basically think that DNA evidence is unreliable.
In Simpson's case, the defense was the first to win the jury. The longer the jury is with the jury, the greater the possibility of misjudgment, especially if the jury is isolated. Every misjudgment is a victory for the defense, even if the prosecution can prove the defendant guilty in the next round.
When Judge Ito decided to use 12 jurors instead of the usual eight jurors, he was probably considering the trial time and the potential possibility that the jury was misled by the media. Judge Ito is likely to realize that Kelly Frye's hearing will take longer than expected, and the trial itself will take much longer than expected. Because both sides believe that the substitute jurors will play a role in this case, they choose the substitute jurors for a longer time than the original jury.
1 9951June1day, the Simpson case finally came to an end after more than a year of trial. In the final court summary statement, prosecutors Clark and Dalton of the prosecution, Cochrane and Xie Ke of the defense respectively demonstrated their eloquence and summarized their opinions. Their speeches are full of emotion and irrefutable logic, and they are the final sprint of a marathon trial.
65438+1at 9: 00 on October 2 16, 12 jurors entered the appraisal room and began to discuss the case. At three o'clock in the afternoon, with three beeps, it means that the jurors have reached a unanimous verdict. Soon 12 jurors returned to court. The foreman told the judge that their verdict had been signed, dated and sealed in an envelope. The judge informed the lawyers of both parties that the verdict would be announced on 10 the next morning.
From 10 to 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon (from 1 to 1 in the afternoon, eastern time). People stopped working. No one in the classroom goes to class. Nobody went to make a phone call. No one went to take a bath. Nobody walks the dog. Civil aviation flights are waiting. Financial activities have stopped. They are all listening attentively to the final verdict of Simpson case. 12: 58, President Clinton left the Oval Office and went to the Minister's Office with his aides to watch the announcement of the ruling.
Under the expectation of the whole country, Judge Robertson read the verdict and declared Simpson innocent. "Jurors, ladies and gentlemen, is this your verdict? For each of you? All of you? " Robertson asked. "yes." They all said. The court immediately boiled.
Simpson is free. He was released in court.
/kloc-ruling after 0/3 years
On June 3, 2008, in the Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, the jury of Clark County District Court found Simpson guilty of all 65,438+02 charges. The court is scheduled to pronounce sentence on February 5, 65438. Simpson, 6 1 year-old, may face life imprisonment.
Different endings: civil trial
1July 27, 1994 and1June 22, 1995, the relatives of two victims, Goldman and Nicole, filed civil lawsuits with the court respectively, demanding compensation for illegal death, thus putting Simpson in the dock of civil litigation. After the exchange of pleadings, discovery of evidence, jury selection and other related procedures, the civil trial officially began on1September, 1996 17. The case was accepted by the Civil Court of Santa Monica, California, with Judge Fujisaki as the sole judge. At the beginning of the trial, Judge Fokki Sakan banned TV reporters from filming in court, and made a ruling to restrict lawyers of both sides from making public comments on the case, thus placing the case in a relatively independent and calm trial atmosphere. Different from this criminal case, the atmosphere of civil litigation is very professional and the litigation process is faster. Although in this civil case, most of the evidence is only a copy and repetition of the evidence in criminal proceedings. However, on the one hand, Judge Fukui Zuogen does not allow any testimony about racial discrimination from criminal proceedings that may be beneficial to Simpson to enter civil proceedings; On the other hand, some important new evidence is more favorable to the plaintiff. For example, the plaintiff summoned several Los Angeles police officers who arrived at the crime scene before Mark Foreman to confirm that all important evidence had been collected before Foreman arrived at the scene, so Foreman could not falsify the scene and evidence. They also confirmed that only one bloody glove was left at the scene. In criminal proceedings, the defense argued that Furman found two bloody gloves at the scene and moved one of them to Simpson's house to frame Simpson. The testimony of the above witnesses overthrew the defense's claim in criminal proceedings. Moreover, the police determined that Simpson had a pair of shoes that matched the footprints at the crime scene, but Simpson denied it. The plaintiff presented 27 photos to the court, which clearly showed that Simpson was wearing shoes that matched the footprints at the scene. The plaintiff's lawyer pointed out that it was because of Simpson's crime that he denied that he had the same shoes. Before the jury made a final decision on the civil case, it asked to hear Simpson's alibi, the testimony of beating Nicole, and the testimony of the driver who went to his house to pick him up at the airport about when and when no one rang the doorbell, which showed the jury's suspicion of Simpson. 1February 4, 997, the civil jury finally reached a verdict. They unanimously determined that Simpson was responsible for the deaths of the two victims, and awarded Simpson $8.5 million to the plaintiff, and also awarded Simpson punitive damages of $654.38+$025,000 to the families of the two victims, totaling $33.5 million.