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Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found brutally murdered outside her condo
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OJ is notified of his ex-wife's death, and takes the first availible flight from Chicago. He is questioned for three hours and voluntarily gives police blood and DNA.
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Robert Shapiro becomes OJ's defense autorney
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Both Nicole and Ron's funerals are held. OJ attends Nicole's with their children.
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Oj Simpsonbe is about to be arrested for two counts of murder but he runs leading police on a slow moving 60 mile car chase in his Bronco.
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The judge rules that there is enough evidence to put OJ on trial
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DNA tests conclude that OJ's blood has the same genetic make up as the blood found at the crime scene.
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Jury is selected. Panel including eight african americans, one white, one Hispanic and two people of mixed race.
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The jury is reselected including seven african americans, four whites and one Hispanic.
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It is brought to the attention of the court that ther police made procedural errors when gathering evidence.
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Frederic Rieders, a forensic toxicologist, says he found evidence of blood preservative in two pieces of evidence, implying police planted the evidence. Since the blood taken from OJ by police was unaccounted for it became a possibility.
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ilbert Aguilar, police fingerprint specialist, says O.J.'s prints were not among 17 sets at crime scene
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Henry Lee, forensics expert, testifies to finding three shoeprints at crime scene didn't match O.J.'s Bruno Magli shoes; said police mishandled evidence.
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Ito rules defense can tell jury of two instances of Fuhrman being racist.
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Glove expert says he's "100% certain" gloves were same.
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State crime lab expert says most sophisticated DNA test finds Goldman's blood in O.J.'s Bronco
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Verdict of not guilty is announced and O.J. Simpson is set free.
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Jury finds Simpson liable and awards plaintiffs $8.5 million in in compensatory damages