Perjury Charges Urged Against O.J. Simpson

Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister and her lawyer said Monday that they are asking the state attorney general to consider filing perjury charges against O.J. Simpson before a statute of limitations runs out in three months.

Denise Brown and attorney Gloria Allred said they were seeking the action because Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti has done nothing on similar requests made to him.

Allred and Brown, who made the new request in a letter delivered to a downtown state office building, said that Simpson lied during his civil trial when he testified that he never hit, struck, slapped or kicked his late wife.

Simpson could not be reached by telephone for comment.

District attorney’s spokeswoman Victoria Pipkin said only that “the matter is still under investigation.”

In the civil trial, Simpson was held liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman, and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.

In an earlier criminal trial he was acquitted of murder.

Allred and Brown said a perjury prosecution of Simpson would show domestic violence perpetrators that they cannot lie in court and get away with it.

Asked whether perjury prosecutions are usually launched in cases in which the defendant has already been held liable, Allred said she had not researched that.