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Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are stabbed to death. Their bodies found in the front courtyard of the Nicole's condominium in Brentwood
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O.J. Simpson is notified of the murders while on a business trip in Chicago. he returns to Los Angeles, is temporarily handcuffed, and taken in for questioning. Robert Shapiro is contacted on Simpson's behalf and asked to become defense counsel
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The funerals of the victims are held
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Before being arrested for murder, O.J. slips out of Robert Kardashian's home. He is chased by police riding in his white Ford Bronco, but When he returns to his home on Rockingham, he is taken into custody.
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Six-day preliminary hearing ends with Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ruling there is sufficient evidence for O.J. Simpson to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder
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O.J. pleads "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" to the charges. Judge Lance A. Ito assigned to hear case.
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Defense counsel files motion to obtain personnel records of Detective Mark Fuhrman.
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District attorney announces that the death penalty will not be sought.
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Judge Ito upholds the legality of the search of Simpson's home.
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Alternate jury selected.
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The jury is sequestered. Hearing held on admissibility of domestic-abuse evidence.
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Nicole Brown's sister Denise testifies about O.J. Simpson's abuse of her sister.
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L.A.P.D. criminalist Dennis Fung concedes, under cross-examination by defense attorney Barry Scheck, procedural errors.
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DNA testimony begins.
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The prosecution rests.
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The defense calls its first witness, Arnelle Simpson, O.J. Simpson's daughter.
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The jury hears excerpts from Fuhrman tapes.
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The defense announces that Simpson won't testify on his own behalf. The defense asks Judge Ito to instruct jury as to reason for Fuhrman's further nonappearance. Judge agrees, but prosecution objects. The question is appealed.
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Defense refuses to rest their case due to the unresolved question of judge's instruction to jury concerning Fuhrman. Judge Ito orders prosecution to begin its rebuttal.
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Both defense and prosecution rest their cases. In a statement to judge waiving his right to testify, Simpson says "I did not, could not, and would not have committed this crime." Judge Ito gives jury instructions
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The case goes to the jury.
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Jury finds O.J. Simpson not guilty of two counts of murder.
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Simpson testifies before a jury for the first time. He denies killing Goldman or his former wife, but cannot explain the physical evidence against him.
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Simpson testifies before a jury for the first time. He denies killing Goldman or his former wife, but cannot explain the physical evidence against him.
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Simpson awarded custody of his children by an Orange County judge.
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Simpson on the stand again.
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Closing argument of Daniel Petrocelli for the plaintiffs. Petrocelli points at Simpson and says, "There's a killer in this courtroom."
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Jury finds Simpson liable and awards plaintiffs $8.5 million in in compensatory damages.
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Court orders Simpson to turn over his assets, including 1968 Heisman trophy, a Warhol painting, and his golf clubs.
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Brown and Goldman families split proceeds from an auction of O. J. Simpson's belongings.
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O. J. Simpson and the Browns negotiate a custody arrangement for the two Simpson children.