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Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. discussed the criminal system, the issue of race and the role of the media in the O.J. Simpson trial before an audience of about 200 people at the Law School's Austin Hall Saturday...
...this country, when you are charged with a crime, you are presumed innocent," Cochran said. "What I worry about is that so many Americans forgot that...
...Though Simpson, according to insiders, desperately wanted to do the interview, virtually his entire legal team advised against it: his comments, they pointed out, could come back to haunt him if they contradicted statements he had made earlier in the criminal investigation. In a statement read by attorney Johnnie Cochran, Simpson complained that NBC was turning the interview into a "confrontation" and looking for "an opportunity to retry the case...
Editors in New York City immediately dispatched reinforcements. Denver bureau chief Dick Woodbury was headed for Montana when he received a message redeploying him to Los Angeles. At the San Francisco airport, bureau chief David S. Jackson ran into another harried traveler: Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. New York correspondent Sharon Epperson and Chicago correspondent Wendy Cole found themselves on planes packed with other journalists. Cole dubbed hers "the O.J. Express." Seated behind her were talk-show staff members who spent most of the trip on an air phone trying to book Los Angeles camera crews...
...approach paid off. National correspondent Jack White joined Cochran on a four-hour flight to Cleveland. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante and correspondent Sylvester Monroe got the cops to open up despite an L.A.P.D. gag order. While photo researcher Martha Bardach scoured the town for pictures, correspondents Margot Hornblower and Patrick Cole and reporter Dan Cray sought out more Simpson lawyers and the Goldman family. And Lafferty's deep connections within the D.A.'s office came through with surprising details about what prosecutors believe really happened the night of the murders. "We think we've seen...