"Back on the record in the Simpson matter." — Judge Lance A. Ito
The Simpson Matter is a searchable digital archive of the criminal and civil trial transcripts in People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson (Case No. BA097211) and Rufo et al. v. Simpson (Case No. SC031947), published online by Jack Walraven.
The archive contains 538,000+ lines across 4,600+ proceedings, spanning 230 court days and 31 deposition sessions. It is indexed by speaker, proceeding, and date, and searchable a passage at a time.
All transcript text is sourced from walraven.org, the work of Jack Walraven, who began archiving Simpson trial transcripts in real time during the 1995 criminal trial — one of the earliest comprehensive legal archives on the web. His collection has kept these transcripts publicly available for more than thirty years. This project would not exist without his work. The original transcripts are official court records from the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, Department 103.
Transcript text is reproduced from the Walraven collection. Errors in the source may remain in this digital edition.
The criminal trial was televised almost in its entirety, and that footage is on YouTube. Where video exists and a passage has been aligned, click the ▶ beside a line to open the video near that moment. Switch on "Sync transcript" and the page follows along as the video plays.
The criminal trial and the preliminary hearing are covered, along with O.J. Simpson's deposition in the civil case. The civil trial itself was not televised, so those transcripts have no video.
Summaries, profiles, timelines, and other guides are separate from the transcript. Some are produced with AI assistance and may contain errors or miss important context; use the transcript and cited records for important questions.
This archive is provided for educational, research, and historical purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice, legal analysis, or legal opinion of any kind.
Court transcripts are public records. This digital edition may contain transcription, attribution, linking, or formatting errors; official court records control.
The full statement, including corrections, removal requests, and reuse, is on the Terms of Use page.
When citing transcript material from this archive, we recommend referencing both the original court record and this digital archive. Below are suggested citation formats for common styles.
Select the # link beside a passage to share its address. Shift-click a second # link to select a range. Cite the original court record alongside that passage link.
Original transcript source: Jack Walraven, walraven.org. Court transcripts are public records of the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles.
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A Court Daemon archive, built by Trice Digital. The visual design references the Windows 95 desktop aesthetic, placing the trial in its temporal context — this was the first major trial of the internet age, unfolding in Department 103 while the web was being born.
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