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Marcia Clark, who served as the lead prosecutor of O.J. Simpson‘s 1994 murder trial, is speaking out right after his dying.
“I mail my condolences to Mr. Simpson’s family,” Clark, 70, claimed in a statement to Leisure Tonight.
Simpson died on Wednesday, April 10, following battling prostate most cancers, his household announced by using X on Thursday, April 11. He was 76 decades previous.
“On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,” the Simpson relatives shared in a assertion. “During this time of transition, his relatives asks that you be sure to respect their needs for privateness and grace.”
While he at first rose to fame as a star NFL athlete, Simpson’s title grew to become a mainstay in the media right after he was accused of murdering ex-spouse Nicole Brown Simpson and her good friend, Ron Goldman, equally of whom had been fatally stabbed.
Following a approximately 12 months-extensive demo that gripped the nation, Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in 1995. He was afterwards uncovered guilty for wrongful demise and battery towards Goldman in a civil fit in 1997.
Simpson’s lawful problems didn’t close there. Following he was arrested in 2007, the former professional athlete was found responsible of kidnapping and armed robbery the next year. Simpson was sentenced to serve nine to 33 decades in prison and was launched on parole in 2021 soon after serving the minimum amount sentence. (His parole listening to was held in November of that 12 months but he was not launched right until December 2021.)
Clark took a leave of absence following the demo and later on resigned from her place in 1997.
“I didn’t go to do the job that working day,” she explained to The Hollywood Reporter of the day Simpson was acquitted. “I did not have to. The scenario was around. I acquired the young children off to faculty. I drove up the coast to satisfy my pal for lunch. I was numb. I desired relief.”
She added of her resignation, “I could not even think of going back again there. The misery was so profound. The only thing I wished was, ‘Get me absent from there’ — the ugliness I experienced been as a result of. When my additional time and vacation time ran out, I had my office environment packed up. I under no circumstances went back.”
Far more than two a long time following the “trial of the century,” it became the subject of FX’s American Criminal offense Tale: The Individuals v. O.J. Simpson, which premiered on the network in 2016.
The limited series starred Cuba Gooding Jr. (Simpson), Sterling K. Brown (Christopher Darden), John Travolta (Robert Shapiro) and David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian). American Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson portrayed Clark.
