Law & Order

This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the O.J. Simpson trial. Simpson was arrested and charged with the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend of hers, Ronald Goldman. Although the criminal court found him not guilty in 1995, a civil trial found him liable for the wrongful deaths of both Goldman and Brown in 1998. Simpson attempted to release the book If I Did It, a fictionalized first-person account of the murders had he actually done them, in 2006, but it was recalled before ever being published. Even the full name of the primary antagonist (James Paul Lange) hearkens back to O.J. Simpson (O.J. stands for Orenthal James). In 2007, Goldman's family purchased the rights to rename and publish the book after a bankruptcy court ruled that Simpson's daughter perpetrated a fraud when she created her shell corporation.