Polygraph results aren't admissible in court, but can play a big role in directing the course of an investigation-and in helping defense attorneys determine the best strategy to take with a client depending on his or her answers.Īlan Dershowitz, who mainly advised the defense team from across the country while teaching at Harvard, told the New York Daily News in 2016, when FX's The People v. Simpson bombed a lie detector test defense attorney Robert Shapiro arranged for him to take, registering a minus-24, according to The Run of His Life. She called a battered women's shelter in Santa Monica on June 7, 1994, to lament that her ex was stalking her. Per Jeffrey Toobin's 1996 book The Run of His Life, in a diary entry from June 3, 1994, Nicole detailed a recent threat from Simpson: "'You hang up on me last nite, you're gonna pay for this bitch.You think you can do any f-king thing you want, you've got it comming. had stood outside and looked through her window on multiple occasions, including one time when she was having sex with a boyfriend. According to prosecutors and witnesses, O.J. Bundy Drive in Brentwood and moved there in January 1994.Īll the while, Simpson was alternately threatening her and trying to get back together.
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agreeing to pay her a lump sum of $433,750, plus $10,000 a month in child support, and she retained the title of a rental property. Nicole eventually moved out with Justin and Sydney and filed for divorce in February 1992. On May 24, 1989, Simpson was sentenced to 24 months of probation, ordered to perform 120 hours of community service and pay fines totaling $470, and was told to attend counseling twice a week (he was allowed to do it by phone) after pleading no contest to misdemeanor domestic violence. A few days later, Nicole went to the station and said she didn't really want them to proceed with a prosecution, but she consented to out-of-court mediation. Then, told he needed to go with the officers to the police station, he drove off instead. Simpson insisted he didn't beat Nicole, only pushed her out of bed. 1, 1989, according to reports about that night. in L.A.'s posh Brentwood neighborhood, responding to a domestic abuse call in the the early morning hours of Jan.
"You guys never do anything," Nicole told police when they arrived at the Simpson home at 360 N. 2, 1985 their daughter Sydney was born eight months later, and son Justin was born in 1988. Simpson met Nicole Brown in 1977 and divorced his first wife, Marguerite, in 1979. He married Nicole on Feb.
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3, 1995, the Simpson trial had cost the city of Los Angeles upward of $10 million and was every bit the circus that you may or may not remember. 9, 1994, and opening statements wouldn't commence until January of 1995. Simpson pleaded "absolutely, 100 percent not guilty" on July 22, 1994. Within days after the double murder of O.J.'s ex-wife and her friend Goldman, who was a waiter at the restaurant where Nicole had dined with her family earlier that night and had dropped by to bring her the glasses her mother had left behind, a whole new vernacular rocketed into the national consciousness: Brentwood. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed outside the front door of her Los Angeles condo while her children slept upstairs in June of 1994, a sickening crime that led to one of the defining cultural happenings of the late 20th century: People of the State of California v. How time flies when the world's gone mad.