RUFO v. SIMPSON

No. B112612.

103 Cal.Rptr.2d 492 (2001)

86 Cal.App.4th 573

Sharon RUFO et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Orenthal James SIMPSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

Review Denied April 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Silberberg & Keener, Robert C. Baker, Santa Monica, and Daniel Patrick Leonard, for Defendant and Appellant.

Hornberger, Ghazarians & Brewer and Michael A. Brewer, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent Sharon Rufo.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Thomas P. Lambert, Peter B. Gelblum, Yvette Molinaro, Jeffrey D. Goldman; O'Melveny & Myers and Daniel M. Petrocelli, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent Fredric Goldman.

Edward J. Horowitz, Los Angeles, and John Quinlan Kelly, for Plaintiff and Respondent Louis H. Brown.


CHARLES S. VOGEL, P.J.

INTRODUCTION

These consolidated civil actions arise from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. A jury found that defendant Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson committed these homicides willfully and wrongfully, with oppression and malice. Sharon Rufo and Fredric Goldman, the parents and heirs of Ronald Goldman, were awarded $8.5 million compensatory damages on their cause of action for wrongful death. (Code Civ. Proc...

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