Law Practice,
Criminal
Oct. 14, 2015
The legacy of the trial of OJ
Twenty years later, what did we learn? A few things.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Were there any lasting lessons from the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson? For those over the age of 35, it is hard to believe that it is now 20 years ago that the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson ended on Oct. 2, 1995, with the jury's verdict of not guilty. No trial in American history so captured public attention. Every national television network broadcast live the preliminary hearing in June 1994, the opening days of the trial in January 1995, and the verdict in October 1995. There were sev...
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