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...defense team, meanwhile, was doing some integrating of its own. Just before Simpson was formally arraigned on Friday (asserting confidently that he was "absolutely, 100% not guilty"), the previously all-white team was joined by Johnnie Cochran, the prominent African-American trial lawyer who represented Michael Jackson against charges of child molestation. Cochran's arrival was regarded by some in the district attorney's office as a defense coup. "Johnnie Cochran is a better trial lawyer than the entire defense team put together," asserts one prosecution source. "Now add the race card. With Cochran in, you're going to have...
More depressing for many seasoned prosecutors is the mounting sense that Simpson has a good chance of walking free. They regard the addition of Johnnie Cochran to the defense team as a major blow. "It's going to be all these white people up there against O.J. and Cochran," says a deputy district attorney. "This is a downtown jury and there are going to be a number of black people on it." Last week a number of senior deputy D.A.s gathered socially, and the talk invariably turned to the Simpson case. An air of resignation immediately overwhelmed the room...
...Cochran signed on in early December and persuaded Jackson to return to the U.S. and take an active role in his defense. "For months," Cochran told Time, "Hard Copy and the tabloids had been beating up Michael. I wanted to bring him back here, at the center of what was happening. Michael always has and always will be the most effective advocate for the fact of his innocence." But after a month of drug therapy, Jackson was off on the fringe. So blithe was he about the charges that, when he arrived home from London, he was accompanied...
...would be worth it, considering that according to Pellicano, $20 million was the amount demanded by the boy's father last year. The trust will ensure that not all the millions end up in the parents' pockets. But how much will the megarich star be left with? Reportedly, Cochran has asked TIG Insurance, the Transamerica subsidiary that holds Jackson's personal-liability policy, to cover the settlement...
Perhaps Jackson, who has been accused of impropriety by no other boy in these five months of glaring publicity, can revive his charisma and career. "Michael's state of mind is good," Cochran says. "He'll be back in the recording studio soon." He will also participate in NBC's The Jackson Family Honors show on Feb. 21 -- an event that could lure more rubberneckers than a Tonya Harding free skate in the Olympics...