O.J. HOLDS THE LINE

BUT IF EVERYTHING HE SAID IS TRUE, NEARLY EVERYONE ELSE, INCLUDING HIS FRIENDS, WOULD HAVE TO BE LYING

The plaintiffs gave it their best shot. For nine hours and two minutes, their lawyers tried to shake the defendant, to provoke an outburst, to spark a defining moment that would convince a majority of the 12 jurors that O.J. Simpson was guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. But the former football star never lost his cool. Asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli, who did the bulk of the interrogating, if he had an explanation for how the blood of his ex-wife and Goldman might have ended up in his Bronco, Simpson responded, as...

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