American Crime Story is the latest TV series to be added to the FX Network and critics are already calling it a hit.
American Crime Story is the upcoming American true crime TV series created by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The series is executive producers with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, February 2nd.
The first season, subtitled The People v. O.J. Simpson will center around the murder of trial of O.J. Simpson.
What is the Murder Trial of O.J. Simpson?
For many people, the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is a long distant memory. But, let us break down what happened. The O.J. Simpson murder case, officially the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson started in 1994 and ended in October 1995. O.J. Simpson would be acquitted after a trial that lasted more than eight months.
The former professional football star and actor O.J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman, in June 1994.
O.J. Simpson hired one of the best defense teams in the country, initially led by Robert Shapiro, and later led by Johnnie Cochrane, F. Lee Bailey, Alan Deshowitz, Robert Kardashian, Gerald Uelmen, Robert Blasier, and Carl E. Douglas, and two more attorneys specializing in DNA evidence including Barry Scheck and Peter Neuefeld for a grand total of 10 attorneys.
Los Angeles County thought they had a great case, but Cochran was able to persuade the jurors that there was reasonable doubt about the DNA evidence, including a blood-sample that had been allegedly mishandled by lab scientists and techs, and about the circumstances surrounding the evidence.
Cochran and the defense team also argued misconduct by the Los Angeles Police Department.
The murder trial of O.J. Simpson has been described as one of the most followed criminal trials in American history. In fact by the end of the criminal trial, national survey’s showed that the trial racially divided the country.
Later Brown and the Goldman families sued O.J. Simpson for damages in a civil trial that came to a total of $40 million. On February 6, 1997, a jury unanimously found that there was a preponderance of evidence to hold O.J. Simpson liable for damages in the wrongful death of Goldman and batter of Brown.
