https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/20/obituaries-2024-famous-people-deaths-quincy-jones-oj-simpson-willie-mays-pete-rose/ > By Bernard McGhee | Associated Press > It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from.