Martin Sheen Behind New Series Claiming Innocence Of O.J. Simpson

Martin Sheen is behind a new documentary series which claims to offer new evidence that O.J. Simpson was not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Sheen will be the executive producer and narrator of ‘Hard Evidence: O.J. Is Innocent’, planned to air on the Discovery Channel spin-off Investigation Discovery.

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It’s said that the six-part show will reveal 'critical new evidence’ about the murders in Brentwood, Los Angeles, back in 1994, and is based on 20 years of investigation by Texas private investigator William C. Dear, who penned the book 'O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It’, published in 2012.

Simpson was acquitted in the 1994 trial, but was found liable for wrongful death in a civil case in 1997, and ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages.

The channel landed the show after a bidding war with included Amazon and, according to Investigation Discovery president Henry Shleiff, 'all the main players’.

“Like most others I had always believed that the evidence showed that [O.J.] did it,” Schleiff added.

“I went into this with a tremendous amount of doubt and cynicism, but this is so amazingly convincing that when you do connect the dots and look at the new evidence, it made me accept the fact that O.J. could actually be innocent.”

Meanwhile, Dear told The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m hoping that when we do this series, the evidence should be more than enough to get a grand jury indictment.

“If I accomplish that, I will have accomplished a great deal in my life. I’ve done the best I can and I’m excited about the fact that finally I can get it out there.”

The show reportedly posits the notion that not only was there not enough evidence to convict Simpson, but that the killer is still at large.

It is scheduled to air in early 2017.

The story of the case most recently hit screens in the drama series 'The People v. O.J. Simpson: The American Crime Story’, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, John Travolta as his legal counsel Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as lawyer Rober Kardashian and Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark.

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