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Domestic Violence - California Activist Fights Against Domestic Violence

By Steven Rodriguez

Since her sister’s tragic death on June 12, 1994, Denise Brown has devoted her professional life to fighting domestic violence in California and across the U.S. The savage murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman at Nicole’s suburban Los Angeles home 15 years ago, the highly publicized murder trial of Nicole’s husband, former football star and actor O.J. Simpson, and his subsequent acquittal led Brown to organize a foundation dedicated to ending domestic violence that bears her sister’s name, the Nicole Brown Foundation. Today, Brown regularly leaves the foundation’s California headquarters to cross the country on behalf of her mission to halt domestic violence. On the eve of a recent address to the nonprofit Columbus (OH) Coalition Against Family Violence, Brown told Columbus Dispatch reporter Jeffry Sheban that the family’s resolve to fight domestic violence stemmed from accounts of physical abuse the family found in her sister’s diaries after Nicole’s murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).