cases end up conflicting with criminal law. This analysis will explore the Simpson criminal trial in depth in order to demonstrate how it represents a conflict with U.S. criminal law.
The U.S. legal system includes to main types of legal cases. The first is a criminal case and the second is a civil case. In criminal cases, “conflict is generally between the state and a person or persons”, while in civil cases “conflict is generally between two or more private parties” (Whitman 1). There are also other important distinctions between criminal law and civil law. These distinctions are
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