THE COURT: All right. Deputy Trower, let's have the jurors, please. (The following proceedings were held in open court, in the presence of the jury:)
All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. And the record should reflect that we have now been rejoined by all the members of our jury panel and our alternates. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
THE JURY: Good morning.
All right. Mrs. Robertson, would you--do you have the envelope with the sealed verdict forms, please?
Would you give those to Deputy Trower. And would you return those to our Foreperson, juror no. 1. Madam Foreperson, would you please open the envelope and check the condition of the verdict forms.
Madam Foreperson, juror no. 1, you've had the opportunity to review the verdict forms?
Would you hand those, please, to Deputy Trower. And you have signed and dated those verdict forms, indicated the jury's verdicts?
All right. Thank you. All right. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm going to ask that you carefully listen to the verdicts as they are being read by the clerk, Mrs. Robertson, as after the verdicts have been read, you will be asked if these are your verdicts. And I would caution the audience during the course of the reading of these verdicts to remain calm and that any--if there is any disruption during the reading of the verdicts, the bailiffs will have the obligation to remove any persons disrupting these proceedings. All right. Mrs. Robertson. All right. Mr. Simpson, would you please stand and face the jury. Mrs. Robertson.
"Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. In the matter of People of the State of California versus Orenthal James Simpson, case number BA097211. We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the Defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187(A), a felony, upon Nicole Brown Simpson, a human being, as charged in Count I of the information.
"Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, in the matter of People of the State of California versus Orenthal James Simpson. We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the Defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187(A), a felony, upon Ronald Lyle Goldman, a human being, as charged in Count II of the information. "We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, further find the special circumstances that the Defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, has in this case been convicted of at least one crime of murder of the first degree and one or more crimes of murder of the first or second degree to be not true. "Signed this 2nd day of October, 1995. "Juror 230." Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is this your verdict, so say you one, so say you all?
THE JURY: Yes.
All right. Counsel, Mr. Simpson, would you be seated, please. Let's have it quiet in the courtroom, please. Mrs. Robertson, would you please poll the jurors.
All right. The clerk is directed to record the verdicts as read. Parties agree to waive reading of the verdicts as recorded? Mr. Cochran, do you waive reading of the verdicts as recorded?
Thank you. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to at this time take this opportunity to publicly thank you for the service that you've given to us. The burdens that we placed upon you were enormous and words can't begin to express the debt that we owe to you for the time and patience and exertion that you've given to us during the course of this case. I will have an opportunity to meet with you privately later, and I'll give you my private comment when we have a chance to meet. I want to caution you at this time that there is, as you know, intense media interest in this case. The news media will probably seek you out at your home or at your place of business, and I would implore that the news media act responsibly to avoid harassing you or identifying you without your consent or otherwise causing you concern. Whether you wish to cooperate with the news media is, of course, entirely up to you. However, I must warn you to expect the worse as far as that is concerned. We want to--I know I share with you in expressing our thanks to the bailiffs and the Sheriff's Department, to our court reporters, Miss Moxham and Miss Olson, to the research attorney, John Byrne, who has assisted our Pepperdine law clerks, Mr. Golob and Miss Carswell, our media liaison, Jerrianne Hayslett and her staff and, of course, the jury commissioner, Gloria Gomez, and her staff. All right. Counsel, is there anything we need to take up before we excuse the jurors? Mr. Cochran?
We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the Defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187(A), a felony, upon Nicole Brown Simpson, a human being, as charged in Count I of the information.
We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the Defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187(A), a felony, upon Ronald Lyle Goldman, a human being, as charged in Count II of the information.
The burdens that we placed upon you were enormous and words can't begin to express the debt that we owe to you for the time and patience and exertion that you've given to us during the course of this case.
I must warn you to expect the worse as far as that is concerned.