role of media in OJ Simpson Case

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The role of the media in the OJ Simpson case

In the early hours of June 13th 1994, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers arrived at the murder scene, two severely mutilated bodies a woman lay in a short black dress which by now was drenched in her own blood she was sprawled face down in a lake of blood that had poured from wounds in her upper body and throat. To her right lay the body of a man his trousers and shirt saturated in blood, as he lay crumpled against a garden fence his eyes still open. They had just walked into a drama that a writer would have given anything to dream up. It was the beginning of a series of events that would obsess the American and world media.

When the police arrived they confirmed that the bodies were well and truly dead and then they were later identified as Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.

As the police searched the house looking for evidence they found the two children of Nicole and OJ Simpson: Sidney and Justin, fast asleep in their beds. Police woke them up to take them to the station where a family member could identify them and take them home.

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The prosecution case at first seemed watertight; Simpson had a motive, an opportunity and no alibi. He had a history of physically abusing his ex-wife, Nicole and had made violent threats against her. He also purchased a knife similar in size and shape to what was believed to have been the murder weapon.

The prosecution claimed Simpson dropped the bloody gloves, one at the crime scene and one at his home, and that he wore shoes the same size as those that made a set of bloody footprints leading away from the crime scene.

The defence case did not appear ...

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