The behavior of O.J. Simpson is current news once again. The events of his tortured life keep showing up on national television to remind every American viewer that justice does not always prevail. As well as the justice system in this country works, it is far from perfect. Seeing O.J. Simpson once again in the news, brings back the whole story of the tragedies of the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown.

You may recall that Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown were brutally slain in 1994 which resulted in the most controversial murder trial of the twentieth century involving football, movie, and television celebrity O.J. Simpson.

The evidence presented at his trial was overwhelming. It should have resulted in a conviction of O.J. Simpson for the brutal murders. However; the trial would become known for the incredible mishandling of the evidence of the case by the Los Angeles Police Department and some dubious rulings by the trial judge. This mishandling of the case allowed a clever trial attorney (the late Johnnie Cochran) to use the issue of race to create doubt in the minds of some of the trial� �s jurors about whether California authorities were framing Simpson for the murders. O.J. Simpson was acquitted by the jury on the criminal charges of the case in 1995.

In 1997, the case was tried in civil court where the Goldman and Brown families won, and were awarded a 33.5 million dollar verdict to be paid by Simpson. Ten years later, despite a decade of court hearings, Simpson still owes the Goldman and the Brown families all but about $500,000 of the 33.5 million dollar verdict for the wrongful deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman..

O.J. Simpson has avoided paying most of the civil suit award and is a still a wealthy man with a three figure income and a private stock account of 2 million dollars. He has managed to maintain this wealth because most of his income is derived from pensions from the National Football League, TV, and movies that are exempt from the civil judgment due to the law. His stock account is protected by the need to pay for the support of his three children. His house in Florida is protected by a Florida law which forbids seizing a house to pay a civil penalty.

Except for about $500,000 of assets claimed from Simpson in the late 1990� �s, the only thing that the civil suit award has done for the Goldman and Brown families is to allow them to claim the rights to Simpson� �s 2006 book titled � �If I Did It� �. The book written by Simpson is a first-person fictional account of the murder had he (Simpson) actually committed it. The book was withdrawn by the publisher just before its release. (when Simpson had the rights to the book.) The book was released last week by the Goldman family and the title of the book was expanded to� � If I Did It: (Confessions of the Killer).� � The book has already become a best seller.