On October 3, 1995, the jury in O.J. Simpson‘s homicide trial walked into the courtroom in Downtown Los Angeles and introduced they’d discovered the previous soccer standout not responsible.

Thirty years later, the proof within the case, the spectacle of it and the controversial verdict are nonetheless ingrained within the public consciousness … and, we have all of the photographs of the trial so that you can assessment each second.

O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson had been married from 1985 to 1992 … two years later, Nicole and the person she was courting, Ron Goldman, had been brutally murdered exterior her apartment in Brentwood in L.A., by a suspect with a knife.

O.J. was set to show himself in a couple of days after the our bodies had been found … however, on June 17, 1994, he held a gun to his personal head behind a white Ford Bronco — pushed by his shut pal and former USC teammate Al Cowlings. The following low-speed cop chase shut down the Interstate 405 freeway … and, captured the nation’s consideration

O.J.’s trial — presided over by Decide Lance Ito — started in January 1994 and got here to an finish with the decision supply on October 3, 1995.

The jury truly got here to a verdict the day earlier than, after simply 4 hours of deliberation … however, the choose determined to carry the decision till the subsequent day.

The “not responsible” verdict shocked many … who could not imagine the jury missed the mountain of DNA proof within the case. Many felt the racial make-up of the jury — with eight Black members — might have performed a component within the acquittal.

Simpson at all times maintained his innocence — vowing to seek out Nicole’s actual killer — nonetheless, a civil courtroom discovered him liable of the murders and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in restitution. That quantity ballooned to nicely over $100 million with accrued curiosity.

O.J. — who later served 9 years in jail after being discovered responsible on armed theft and kidnapping costs — died in 2024 … and our personal Harvey Levin, who lined O.J.’s trial again within the day, stated on “TMZ Stay” he is certain Simpson did kill his ex-wife and Goldman.

Simpson’s trial was dramatized within the first season of the anthology collection “American Crime Story” — starring Cuba Gooding Jr. — and quite a few documentaries, together with our personal 30-year retrospective “TMZ Presents: O.J. How He Actually Did It” accessible to stream free on Tubi.