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...Johnnie Cochran, meanwhile, along with co-counsel Carl Douglas, is at his Wilshire Boulevard office overlooking Hancock Park late into the night. He too will be working through the weekend, with a brief break to have a session with his personal trainer (``I want to be standing when this is over,'' he says), and to lament the fact that he wasn't able to use his Super Bowl tickets this year. But he admits he's feeling pretty good about his case right now. ``People have been coming up to me and saying, `Before you started talking, I thought this...
...budget amendment and observations about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
Moreover, by the time Johnnie Cochran addressed the jury on Wednesday, it had become clear, not only to the increasingly agitated prosecutors but also to legal analysts, that the Dream Team is more than just highly paid, highly qualified and highly dedicated. Cochran & Co. unveiled an unexpectedly strong defense. They also demonstrated--by their stealth-witness gambit--that they are prepared to push this case to the very limits of legality. Says Gigi Gordon, a leading Los Angeles defense attorney: ``Those jurors are all sitting around in their little hotel rooms right now thinking, Wow, four guys in watch caps...
...money'' made it onto the screen--whether the result, that is, justifies the expense. In this trial, O.J. Simpson's money has certainly made it into the courtroom. Scrappy, overworked state employees appear to be just that when set against the silver-tongued, monied and remarkably personable defense lawyers. Cochran, chuckling modestly in a moment of theater that must have infuriated Clark and Darden, told the court last Thursday, ``We certainly don't refer to ourselves as the Dream Team. We're just a collection of lawyers just trying to do the best...
That best was impressive. Impeccably dressed as ever in dark blue, striped shirt and bold red-and-blue tie, Cochran sought to strike an immediate rapport with the jury. Spinning stories, addressing jurors like a loquacious, well-loved uncle, Cochran spoke confidently of his client's innocence, reeled out his favorite saying from Martin Luther King Jr.-- ``Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere''--and insisted that ``this case is about an obsession to win at any cost and by any means necessary...