Retired American football player, sports broadcaster and actor, O.J. Simpson, was accused of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in a lengthy and internationally publicised criminal trial during 1994-1995.
The trial amounted to an 11-month saga of soap opera proportions, regularly descending into farce despite the gravity of the charges.
On October 3, 1995, as America stood still, the jury returned a verdict of 'not guilty'. But was it a triumph for the US justice system or a reminder that power and money will always trump justice?
Like the preceding controversial criminal trial, the verdict divided America along racial lines. Listen back here as Fionn Davenport explores at the story of the O.J Simpson verdict.
