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...Johnnie Cochran, lead defense attorney forO.J. Simpson, marched through his opening statement today, crisply attacking the prosecutors' case, while portraying his client as a victim of a "rush to judgment" by Los Angeles authorities. "We're going to talk about the trails that they didn't pursue," Cochran said. He hinted of a frame-up by authorities, claiming that the district attorney's office had ignored an account by a woman who was in Nicole Brown Simpson's neighborhood the night of the murder. Cochran claimed the woman informed the D.A.'s office that she had seen four men walking...
...jury has heard none of this. They spent the hearings sequestered in a Los Angeles hotel, their first taste of what may be months of isolation. Scrambling to contain the damage, defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. complained to reporters outside the courtroom about "a tabloid prosecution" that took its cues from the best seller by Nicole's friend Faye Resnick. One day later, prosecutors temporarily withdrew 18 of the 62 items, including Nicole's narrative, which the defense belittled as the work of a woman marshaling her case in a divorce dispute. Though that went far to make the prosecution...
...Attorney Chris Darden, referring to "the n-word," said the use of the word in the trial would "blind the jury. It'll blind the truth. They won't be able to discern what's true and what's not." This elicited an angry response from defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, who characterized Darden's comments as "perhaps the most incredible remarks I've ever heard in a court of law in 32 years of practicing law . . . To say that our mostly African American jurors can't be fair is absolutely outrageous." At one point during the back-and-forth...
...former wife and Ronald Goldman broke into open hostility today as the defense bitterly criticized Nicole Brown Simpson's sister Denise for publicly questioning O.J.'s innocence. "What has happened now is the court can hardly turn on the television without seeing Denise Brown ," defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. said in a hearing. "She has taken it upon herself to misconstrue, to put her own spin on interpretations." Brown has implied in television interviews that Simpson committed the murders. The impact of her statements became clear when a prospective alternate juror told Judge Lance Ito he had seen Brown...
Floating what prosecutors called "oddball theories," Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. told potential jurors that as many as four people had committed the murders. "Are any of you going to require Mr. Simpson and his lawyers tosolve these killingsand identify the real killers?" Cochran asked. "You understand, that's not our job." Cochran's statements came during the questioning of a jury pool of 42 people -- part of aselection processJudge Lance Ito said is likely to take another month. His comments prompted Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark to ask the jurors, rhetorically: "Do you expect me to shoot down...