In , he was considered one of the best trial lawyers in the nation, and it was Simpson himself who asked Shapiro to bring Cochran onto the team. Once Cochran gained control of Simpson's defense strategy and pushed Shapiro to the side, he wooed the courtroom and media.
Using his "Black preacher" style approach, he controversially used the race card to curry sympathy for Simpson. After prosecutor Darden made the mistake of demanding Simpson try on the ill-fitted bloody gloves, Cochran uttered the famous phrase: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
Before Lance Ito was appointed to the bench in , he was an attorney for the L. A fan of media attention, Ito was arguably too lax about different aspects of the Simpson trial, giving interviews and inviting celebrities and journalists into his chambers. Judge Ito was further criticized on his decision to allow cameras in the courtroom and letting attorneys stall and have too many sidebars. His willingness to include Detective Mark Fuhrman's old taped interviews, in which he denigrated Black people, was also a huge source of contention for the prosecution.
In a strange twist, the tapes also revealed Fuhrman had made disparaging remarks about Ito's wife, Margaret York, who was Fuhrman's department superior at the time. When those comments were exposed, the prosecution asked for Ito to recuse himself due to his possible bias against Fuhrman, but later the request was withdrawn. Among the most controversial figures of the Simpson trial was L. Although Fuhrman denied ever having racist tendencies or using the n-word, a taped interview he had chosen to do 10 years earlier revealed otherwise.
In the recording, he was quoted as saying to incarcerated Black people: "You do what you're told, understand, n—r? A wave of backlash hit Fuhrman, but he continued denying being a racist and also pushed back against the defense's theory that he planted the bloody glove to frame Simpson. As the prosecution's witness, Dennis Fung — the LAPD criminologist who collected evidence at the murder scene — ended up spending the longest time testifying on the stand.
For nine days, Fung recalled how he collected samples of blood, albeit admittedly overlooking some important areas where blood drops were identified and not always using gloves.
Robert Kardashian was born in to Armenian-American parents, who ran a profitable meat-packing business. He grew up in L. A, and had his early schooling from the Dorsey High School. He earned a degree in business administration in from the University of San Diego. Kardashian worked as a lawyer for almost 10 years before he concentrated on business like OJ lawyers. It was around that he met O. Simpson, a football star of that time, and developed a friendship.
The friendship soon turned into a professional relationship, with the two setting up a music video company and a frozen yogurt shop and hiring criminal defense attorney. Some one close to a tree and the fence against Robert Kardashian. He had been stabbed multiple times in the body and neck but like Brown had relatively few defensive wounds.
Simpson was acquitted of all criminal charges in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ron Goldman. Another reason for the hourglasses is that Ito likes things in general. He likes gadgets and tools. He whipped it out recently to help Marcia Clark open an evidence envelope. Lance Allan Ito born August 2, is a retired American judge best known for presiding over the criminal trial for the O.
Simpson double-murder trial. Some, like Alan Dershowitz , remain fixtures in the political scene. Simpson himself later did jail time for armed robbery. Here, take a look at the major players from "The Trial of the Century" and where they are now. In , he was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping, of which he was later convicted and sentenced to 33 years in prison, with a minimum of nine years without parole.
He served nine years at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada and was granted parole in July He was released on October 1, , and has remained a free man since. Now 73, Simpson lives mostly under the radar in Las Vegas. Clark, now 67, has gone on to write a series of crime novels and has also appeared as a television commentator about high profile trials. After the trial, Cochran continued to practice law and appear as a TV commentator.
He died of brain cancer in at age Another member of "The Dream Team", the year-old F. Lee Bailey who also famously represented Patty Hearst has fallen from grace since the trial: he was disbarred in both Florida and Massachusetts for his handling of stock owned by a drug-smuggler client. He also filed for bankruptcy in Even after passing the bar in Maine, where he now resides, he has still been denied a license to practice. Robert Kardashian was one of Simpson's oldest friends—they met as students at USC, and Simpson served as best man at Kardashian's wedding to Kris Houghton who, of course, later became Kris Jenner.
Kardashian was not a practicing lawyer when Simpson's trial began, but he reactivated his practice to join the defense team. He maintained serious doubts about Simpson's innocence, and the two stopped speaking after the trial.
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