O. J. Simpson was on trial for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson in 1976.
In 1995 , Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman after a lengthy and internationally publicised trial .	acquitted	acquitted	Nicole Brown Simpson	Nicole Brown Simpson	Ronald Goldman	Ronald Goldman	lengthy and internationally publicised trial	O. J. Simpson murder case
The trial spanned eleven months , from the jury 's swearing-in on November 9 , 1994 .
