This article will discuss the broadly covered and publicized criminal trial in the US court system . It happened in 1994 when famous former football player , OJ Simpson was charged in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson had the money and the high profile to hire what as later deemed as the “Dream Team” of Las Vegas criminal defense attorney or Las Vegas criminal defense lawyer. This trial was so closely and widely covered that all of the attorneys involved in the case, on both the defense or the prosecution became celebrities in their own right.

One of the most outspoken defense lawyers on Simpson’s team was Johnnie Cochran. This high profile attorney gave passionate performances in the courtroom to fight] the overwhelming evidence against famous for using the phrase, “If it don’t fit, then you must acquit” that was about a bloody glove that had the matching one found in Simpson’s home that had a blend of Simpson’s and the two victims blood on it. During the trial, Cochran said that glove could not have been put on by the largely built Simpson because it was way too little. He then had Simpson physically show what a struggle it was for him to attempt to get the glove to go on his hand .

It has been estimated that the defense attorney team cost Simpson somewhere between 3-6 million dollars , the most costly murder defense expense ever . Another attorney F. Lee Bailey led the team to fight that LAPD detective, Mark Fuhrman, actually illegally put evidence at the crime scene and was racist and wanted Simpson to be found guilty.

The other two defense attorneyson the Simpson trial are the two Robert’s. One is Robert Kardashian who has died fromcancer since then but became quite famous and wealthy from this trial and his family has celebrity status today . The other lawyer is Robert Shapiro who also became well known not only for his defense of OJ Simpson at the trial but for his frank opinions against a couple of members of the dream team after the trial ended . He put these opinions in the book titled Search for Justice where he referred to F. Lee Bailey a loose cannon and said that Johnnie Cochran played the race card at the trial. This wasquite a controversy. All of the defense attorneys gained fame following this trial whether they wished for it or not due to the amount of publicity and reaction from the public .

The final result of the Dream Team’s job ended up working and despite what was viewed as incredible evidence against Simpson, he was found not guilty in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. A couple of jurors later admitted that they believed that Simpson did commit the murders but that the prosecution bungled the case too much. After the trial, the public was surprised he was found not guilty and were upset while other people agreed the result. Somewhat of a racial divide regarding this occurred as well .