Los
Angeles police announced that a knife was allegedly found on Simpson's
former estate in Brentwood, stirring memories of the stabbings of his
ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman outside her
condominium in 1994.
The
development conjured up a cast of characters from the trial that gripped
the nation's attention in the mid-1990s: Remember the televised
slow-speed chase of O.J. Simpson in the white Bronco? His all-star legal
team? The glove that did not fit? Judge Lance Ito?
And
who can forget the ongoing crusade of Goldman's outraged family against
Simpson, who is now imprisoned in Nevada for armed robbery and
kidnapping in a separate case.
Emotions still burn fiercely
about the case and its underlying issues that sound remarkably familiar
today: race, justice and policing in America.
A
jury acquitted Simpson in the killings in 1995, but questions endure
about his guilt in popular culture -- fairly or not. His acquittal
largely split the country along racial lines. He cannot be tried again.
The
weapon used in the stabbing deaths was described as a long, serrated
knife. It was not found. The double-murder case remains open but Simpson
was found liable in the civil wrongful death suit brought by the
victims' families two years later. Who has been following this case? Comment below.
Source: CNN
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