American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson is a documentary currently on Netflix.
Listening to it again - Mr. Simpson had a lot of lawyers. Their photographs are down below on this post, and that's not even all of them. There were more.
In 1994 - 1995, during the investigation and trial of the Simpson case, I had not before heard of any of the Simpson defense lawyers except for F. Lee Bailey. Somehow, I had heard his name - probably because he represented Patty Hearst. And - I think maybe F. Lee Bailey was from Boston, and he was famous there, when I was in school there, so his name was just - around. ...
Robert Kardashian, we hear about later, because his ex-wife and grown-up children have a reality show.
Robert Shapiro - I remember that name from 1994 and 1995, I had never heard of him before, I wouldn't have reason to - and then watching this documentary on Netflix, they said after the verdict, Mr. Shapiro went on TV with Barbara Walters, in an interview, to say he disagreed with "playing the race card, and - dealing it from the bottom of the deck," and that was what the team of lawyers he was on, did.
Like, what?? He was complaining about - who? Himself?
That was a little bit surprising.
And Johnnie Cochran - he was famous for saying to the jury, after O.J. Simpson tried on the glove: "Remember these words: if it doesn't fit, you must acquit!"
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