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...FACT, THOUGH, THERE WILL BE NO place in America where the fallout of the Simpson case will not be felt, especially after the explosive events of last week. There were signs as early as Tuesday, when Cochran showed up at the courthouse surrounded by a crew of muscle in bow ties from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. Cochran says he took up their offer to act as his bodyguards because he had received death threats, including one faxed to the courtroom during his summation. "We do get threats, so we have to have protection," Cochran shrugs. "It's just...
...Cochran says he has visited Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the victims of the Holocaust. "I understand that no particular race has a corner on misery," he told Time last week. Simpson lawyer Robert Shapiro told a friend he was unhappy about playing up the race issue. But Alan Dershowitz, famously sensitive to anti-Semitism, insists that for putting Fuhrman on the stand in the first place, "the prosecution is entirely to blame for introducing race into this case...
...revisiting some of its worst memories, the ones formed during the riots that followed the first Rodney King trial. The L.A.P.D., which was accused of responding too slowly to the first disturbances that followed the King verdict,will be on low-level alert on O.J.'s verdict day. After Cochran's summation, police chief Willie Williams declared he would hold the entire defense team responsible for heightening tensions in his city: "When this trial is over, they're going to go back to their homes. [But] we're going to have to live with the bile spewed out these last...
Clark dropped Fuhrman hard in her closing remarks when she vehemently rejected him as a racist who had lied on the stand. But it may have been too late to save her case. For his part, Cochran denies that in his summation he was urging "jury nullification"--proposing that jurors set aside the evidence to make their decision on another basis. "What we said is that in this case, where there is such a reasonable doubt, for the prosecution to prevail each link in the chain of things has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt," he explains. "They didn...
...week what would be next for him. "Me?" he said with an apparent straight face. "This is my last case." Shapiro, who plans "to reacquaint myself with my family," will also soon be joining a large Los Angeles law firm as a senior partner, dissolving his own. But Johnnie Cochran swears that if O.J. is retried, he will still be beside him. "Despite the fact that I'll probably be in bankruptcy, I'll stay with it until...