LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson was found guilty late Friday on all 12 counts stemming from a confrontation in a hotel room last year, including armed robbery and kidnapping.
The verdict, which comes 13 years to the day after Mr. Simpson was acquitted in the highly publicized murders of his ex-wife and her friend, concluded a four-week trial that many have seen as a proxy for those unsatisfied by that 1995 outcome.
I remember a lot of small things about the last OJ trial: the white bronco, the glove, Judge Ito, Johnnie Cochran, Kato Kaelin, etc.. I guess I would have been 15 during the trial, but I can't seem to remember what I was doing in those days.
What were you doing back in 1995? What do you remember about the OJ trial?
HT: RevRock and NY Times
posted by Shannon Smith @ 10/04/2008
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i had just gotten my license about 2 months earlier. i was driving the '79 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais around town while listening to Outkast's second album, ATLiens over and over.
Me and you. Yo mama and yo cousin too. Rollin down strip on vogues.
Comin up slammin Cadillac doze.
ahh, memories.
I was a freshman in high school, and I remember being amazed at how the verdict reaction was perfectly divided along racial lines. I went to a high school that was just about 50% white and 50% minority (mostly African-American). Many of us watched the verdict announcement in the school library, and there was a lot of tension.
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