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Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goodman in 1995. Twenty years on, his case still remains controversial, but why? Simpson was a star athlete until 1979, where he pursued his dream of becoming an actor (Harris, 2008). O.J.’s alleged murder of his former wife and her friend thrust him into the spotlight, catching the public’s attention, as well as every news station in the U.S. One factor that makes this case so notorious is that there were many flaws during the investigative process, and a lot of them lead to the outcome of Simpson’s freedom from his charges. Many of these investigative errors could have been overcome with rigorous surveillance of officers on the

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