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FILE - O.J. Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994, where he pleaded "absolutely, 100 percent not guilty" on murder charges. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, died Wednesday, April 11, 2024, of prostate cancer. He was 76. (AP Photo/Pool/Lois Bernstein, Pool)
Legendary athlete, actor and millionaire: O.J. Simpson’s murder trial lost him the American dream
For a long time, O.J. Simpson had it all. He lived the American dream as a sports legend, movie actor, commercial pitchman and millionaire.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds O.J. Simpson as the not guilty verdict is read in a Los Angeles courtroom during his trial in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, Robert Kardashian look on. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
AP WAS THERE: OJ Simpson’s murder trial acquittal
LOS ANGELES (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: If there was ever a murder case perfectly suited for media and public consumption it was the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995, file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. stand with him. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
10 things to remember about O.J. Simpson
Ten things to remember about O.J. Simpson, the NFL running back-turned actor who was acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend. The family announced on Simpson’s official X account that Simpson died Wednesday after battling prostate cancer.
 
‘This is crazy': Former AP reporter remembers Manson trial
Former Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch recalls the trial of cult leader Charles Manson as a surreal spectacle with grotesque images of death and a band of female followers who camped outside on the sidewalk.
 
Through his life, Tom Hayden dedicated to changing the world
Famed 1960s anti-war activist Tom Hayden went from firebrand college liberal to mainstream politician to elder political statesman. Through it all he remained the person he said he always wanted to be: someone dedicated to changing the world.
 
Manson jail cell preserved in LA Hall of Justice
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relics of an era when famous felons occupied the old Los Angeles Hall of Justice have been exorcised in a dazzling restoration.
 
‘Shield’ actor waives hearing in wife’s death
Jace is accused of shooting his wife, April Jace, in their Los Angeles home on May 19. He pleaded not guilty during his June arraignment.
 
Front row seat to OJ Simpson’s fall, rise, fall
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson arose from the counsel table at his murder trial and approached the jury box with the famous leather gloves.
 
Calif. serial killer Richard Ramirez dies
Ramirez, 53, had been taken from San Quentin’s death row to a hospital where authorities said he died of liver failure. Prison officials said they could not release further details on the cause of death, citing federal patient privacy laws.
 
Jurors hear voicemail saying Jackson was sick
The message left by Frank DeLeo was retrieved by police from the cellphone of Dr.
 
Reclusive death penalty lawyer opens up about work
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Clarke is in the business of cheating death, but she rarely talks about it.

The names of her past clients — Susan Smith, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and most recently, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner — run like a list of the most reviled in American criminal history. But she did not say whether she would add to that list the latest name in the news: The suspect in the Boston