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Moreover, some defense experts believe the defense team, led by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., has already succeeded in establishing a reasonable doubt and should rest its case right now. Day after day, Simpson's lawyers slyly undermined the evidence not simply by poking pinholes in the testimony but also by conjuring several alternate crime scenarios-that the police are framing Simpson, that police incompetence tainted evidence and/or that drug hit men committed the crimes. "Basically, the majority of our case has been presented through cross-examination of prosecution witnesses," says Simpson's attorney Robert L. Shapiro. "They [prosecutors] have been...
...there to commit the murders. Heidstra earlier was the source of tense words betweendefense attorney Johnnie Cochranand prosecutor Christopher Darden after Darden asked him if one of the voices he had heard outside Nicole Simpson's house the night of the murders could have come from a black man. Cochran exploded, calling the question "racist" and demanding that it be struck from the record. The two lawyers, who have been at odds since Cochran suggested early in the trial that Darden was only on the prosecution's team to appeal to black jurors, quickly began arguing. Judge Lance Ito cleared...
...President said after meeting withSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic leaders. "But I think it would be an error to delay it and run the risk of having a crisis in government." Dole and Gingrich made no pledge to budge, but Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said both parties "are committed to making this work...
...specialities, jury consultants, investigators and experts. Though exact figures are hard to come by, one person close to the case will reveal this much: Simpson has spent $100,000 on a jury consultant; Robert Shapiro's contract entitles him to $100,000 a month for 12 months; Johnnie Cochran Jr. is working for a large flat fee. Simpson, whose net worth was reported to be $10 million on the day of his arrest, has taken out a $3 million credit line on his Brentwood home, and according to one of his lawyers will have spent $5 million to $6 million...
...child-molestation rap. Michael Jackson held parties on both coasts, in Los Angeles and New York City, to celebrate the June 20 release of HIStory, Past, Present & Future-Book I, his new, epic, hubristic double CD. Both affairs were surprisingly luminary free; even Jackson skipped them. However, Johnnie Cochran, the savvy superlawyer who helped get the child-sex-abuse charges against Jackson settled out of court and who is now defending O.J. Simpson, did show up at the L.A. function, along with fellow attorney Carl Douglas. The pair circulated fabulously and posed for photos with partygoers, who were mostly record...