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...defense lawyers were locked in a tense standoff. Lucky Shapiro gets to be the first to offer a narrative of the power grabbing and camera hogging by the unruly Dream Teamers, a narrative in which he manages convincingly to describe his frustration at being edged out by Johnnie Cochran while also insisting that his diminished role had been planned all along. Shapiro is skilled, in fact, at doling out praise that is either damning or faint, sometimes both: Marcia Clark was an "honorable adversary," he notes before launching into an embarrassing tale about Clark's ex-husband, the professional backgammon...
Shapiro will never speak to Bailey again, and he has said he will never work with Cochran again. He blames Cochran and Carl Douglas for violating the rules of reciprocal discovery in the defense's opening statement, when Cochran sprang new witnesses upon the prosecution. And he shows a Cochran determined to play the race card. "A defense built on race will never help us," Shapiro told Cochran. "Never say never, Bob," Cochran replied...
...Simpson on the tape and those he has made previously can be used against him in the civil case scheduled to begin in early April. But Simpson brushed aside their warnings, saying he needed the money. According to one insider, Simpson is broke and owes his lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, hundreds of thousands of dollars: the video will earn him a reported $3 million...
...many blacks jubilant. As the nation regarded itself on this split screen, it became apparent that the truths we hold to be self-evident are perhaps evident only to some: justice has a different meaning for the minority motorist pulled over for speeding or for no reason at all. Cochran skillfully managed to make O.J. Simpson, with his white wife and his country-club friends, the unlikely symbol of this ugly racial truth--and so exploited the media frenzy of a celebrity case to deliver a message too often ignored by white America. Never mind that many Americans, white...
...weeks after the verdict, Americans had a chance to hear that message again when hundreds of thousands of black men marched in Washington in a day of atonement and an assertion of pride. Cochran did not attend, but he was there in spirit, one of the reasons, along with the chimera of a Colin Powell presidency, that many participants had the optimism to march...