Claim: O. J. Simpson was the subject of an internationally publicized trial.
Evidence: In 1995 , Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman after a lengthy and internationally publicised trial.
The O. J. Simpson murder case -LRB- officially titled People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson , or People v. O. J. Simpson -RRB- was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court , in which former National Football League -LRB- NFL -RRB- player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend and restaurant waiter Ron Goldman on June 12 , 1994.