Essays on O. J. Simpson

The concept of justice is something that has been debated on since at least Greek antiquity. While many people throughout the United States believe in American Exceptionalism and claim that America’s criminal justice is the best in the world, further inspection of this system would appear to indicate that it contains a substantial amount of deficiencies. Not only do some people claim that it systematically discriminates against people of certain races, but other perspectives have even argued that rich people are able to get off easier when they commit crimes. The present research examines whether or not wealth ...

Introduction

In law enforcement, profiling is a technique used to develop a profile of unknown criminal offenders using available information from crimes committed. Criminal profiling seeks to identify an offender through analysis of the offense committed, the manner it was committed and physical evidence from the scene of offense. Through the use of information collected, psychological characteristics of offenders may also be developed. Profiling is mainly employed in offender profiling. However, since profiling involves the analysis of several aspects of an individual including behavior, it is used in other ways other than criminal profiling. Profiling is used in the American judicial process, ...

Wedding Cake Model of Justice

The top layer of the wedding cake, in the wedding cake model of justice, is composed of celebrated cases. One of the most celebrated cases of recent times is the case of the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson. In this 1994 case, former professional football star and then current actor, O.J. Simpson was accused of the murder of his wife and another man. After a lengthy, well publicized trial, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty by the California jury. The trial received media coverage from a large number of media outlets including NBC’s Today, the ...

The O.J. Simpson Case The O.J. Simpson Case O.J Simpson also known as Orienthal James Simpson was a renowned footballer. O.J was an athlete, an actor, a father and a husband to Marguerite who he later divorced and married Nicole Brown. The O.J Simpson case also known as the People of the state of California V. Orienthal James Simpson case was a criminal trial that took place in Los Angeles, California (Bugliosi, 1997). This was one of the most publicized trials in the American history. In this trial, O.J Simpson was tried on two counts of murder of his ex wife ...

Proposal

The research questions in this paper are how the media is connected to developing the responsiveness about domestic violence? And how the society is doing to mitigate media influence especially to the young girls? This paper describes how different sources help to understand how the media is affecting the young girls and women in the society. Media currently had played a major role in facilitating gender violence in the modern society. This is because young people are geared towards imitating the behaviors of their role models and celebrities. Domestic violence could be viewed broadly not only as a domestic issue ...

The O. J. Simpson Murder Trial

“A great trash novel come to life” (Linder, 2000). This is what the criminal trial of Orenthal James Simpson was referred to as. However it cannot be denied that the American public had been deeply captivated by the trial. Initially, reports of the Murder of the ex-NF: football star’s wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, did not capture the full attention of the people. However, 95 million television viewers did witness the live police chase, with Simpson behind the wheel of his infamous Bronco ride. It was quite the shock when the “Not Guilty” verdict ...

Jury Nullification

“You . . . police the Police. You police them by your verdict. You are the ones to send the message. Nobody else is going to do it in this society. You . . . are the ones in war; you are the ones on the front line” Johnnie Cochran, 1995 O.J. Simpson trial, on jury nullification Jury nullification refers to a jury’s decision to return a verdict of “not guilty” even when the jury believes that the defendant is guilty of the criminal charges. In essence, the jury “nullifies” a law that it does not want to apply to the defendant, either because the jury ...