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Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live because an NBC executive ordered him to lay off jokes targeting his buddy, O.J. Simpson & instead Macdonald did many more. When Simpson was acquitted, Macdonald opened with: “Well, it’s official: Murder is now legal in the state of California."
how are nicknames acquired?
The family of Ron Goldman (the guy OJ was acquitted of murdering) was awarded the rights to his infamous book "If I Did It" as a result of the civil trial, renamed it "Confessions of a Killer", then published it.
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what does acquitted by jury mean?
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In 1855 the mayor of Los Angeles, Stephen Foster, convinced a mob to not kill an accused murderer, but to try him in a court of law. When the accused man was acquitted, the mayor resigned and led a lynch mob to kill the man. He was re-elected a year later.
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Mel Ignatow was acquitted of the murder of his girlfriend... selling his house to fund his defense. However, photos of him actually comitting the murder were found inside the house, but due to double-jeapordy laws, he couldn't be tried again
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Prior to British troops firing on civilians at the Boston Massacre in 1770, they were pelted with oyster shells, ice, stones, sticks, and beaten with clubs by an unruly mob. At the trial, the soldiers were successfully defended by none other than John Adams and all were acquitted of murder.
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That, in 1818, an Englishman accused of murder demanded a trial by combat. Surprisingly, the law that allowed for trial by combat was still valid, and the man was acquitted when his accuser declined the offer of battle. Trial by combat was abolished the following year.
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Colin Farrell was a suspect for attempted murder and was acquitted due to a journal entry from his friend stating the two were doing ecstasy across town.
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till's mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
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A lawyer was trying to prove, in a murder trial, that someone shot themselves, accidentally. While the lawyer was reenacting it he accidentally shot himself and died. He proved his point and the defendant was acquitted, only to be shot himself a few years later.
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Two women, born on the same day but 157 years apart, died on the same day. They were killed in the same spot, both by a man with the surname Thornton. Both men were acquitted of their murders
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Hans Münch, an SS physician who refused to assist in the murder of inmates at Auschwitz. He was the only member of the SS at Auschwitz acquitted entirely, mostly due to hundreds of inmates testifying in his favor.
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In 1993, Snoop Dogg and his bodyguard (McKinley Lee) were charged with the murder of Phillip Woldermariam. Both were later acquitted thanks to Johnnie Cochran (the same lawyer that helped clear OJ Simpson of murder).
A man was sentenced to life without parole for accountability murder while the man he was charged for aiding was acquitted by a separate jury - source
Snoop Dog was acquitted of murder in 1993. He was defended by Johnnie Cochran, who also defended O.J. Simpson of murder. - source
Emmett Till, a 14 year old black teenager that was killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white female. The murderers were acquitted in trial by an all-white jury.
A state and federal congressman and defense lawyer was demonstrating how a victim could have accidentally shot himself when the lawyer accidentally shot and killed himself. The man he was defending was acquitted of murder due to the lawyer's overly convincing argument. - source
What does it mean when charges are acquitted?
Title IX of the Act made it easier for criminal cases involving civil rights violations to be tried in federal court. This was extremely important as many Klansmen who were acquitted in state courts for crimes ranging from assault and arson to murder were usually convicted for civil rights violations, although the convictions usually carried far less time.
David Bain, a man accused and convicted of murdering his mother, father, and three younger siblings when he was 22. He was acquitted after a second trial in 2009 after having spent 13 years in prison. The retrial jury took less than a day to render Bain not guilty on all five counts.
Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder in part because the prosecution's evidence mysteriously disappeared.
The trial was held in Sumner in September 1955. It lasted 5 days and the murderers were acquitted. The jury had been made up of white males only. No women or blacks had been allowed).
Davis was acquitted of murder in June 1972.
