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    Commentary: From the Brentwood townhouse to the downtown courthouse, the OJ Simpson saga was part of my life

    by Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times Apr 12, 2024 3 minutes
    Larry Green (R) holds a guilty sign and Mable Coleman wears a "Free OJ Now" T-shirt outside the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building prior to the announcement of the not guilty verdicts in the O.J.

    LOS ANGELES — Two murders in Brentwood? That was unusual, I thought, as word filtered through the newsroom on a Monday afternoon in June 1994 that two people were found dead in the upscale neighborhood — and one of them was Nicole Brown Simpson, the former wife of O.J. Simpson. The other victim was her friend Ron Goldman.

    With O.J. Simpson’s death from, memories of the saga that consumed the city, my newspaper and — because I lived in Brentwood — my neighborhood came flooding back.

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