ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was a trial filled with controversy, with some fairly colorful figures who took the stand. And everybody's conventional wisdom, which shows you how conventional wisdom can be wrong, was that the jury would be out for a good number of days, possibly, and maybe even weeks before they were able to come up with a verdict. And instead they just totally surprised everybody and came back with a very quick verdict. They didn't ask to review much evidence at all or much of the testimony at the trial.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder...</s>FELDMAN: The biggest reaction that happened on the day that O.J. Simpson was acquitted was the sense of how could it happen so fast? That was the predominant feeling, I think, that, no matter who you talked to, whether they were O.J. Simpson supporters or people who believed that O.J. Simpson committed the crimes that he was alleged to have committed -- I think that everybody's reaction was total surprise that the jury could reach a verdict as quickly as it did, because you have to remember that this was a trial that went on for quite some time. It had many, many witnesses, many more than the normal murder trial would have in Los Angeles.
CNN 20: O.J. Simpson Acquitted, October 3, 1995