“Trial of the century” sounds like lazy hyperbole, but there is an argument that that is exactly, literally, what the 1994 trial of O.J. Simpson, who died this week at the age of 76, became. Hauntingly sketched in the ESPN documentary series Made in America, the trial became a crucible for generations of brutal and racist policing, the impunity afforded to celebrities, the blind eye turned to domestic abuse and much, much more.
There are many contenders for the most bizarre and unedifying moment in Simpson’s life in the nearly 30 years since he was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
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