"Just get in the van or I'll tell them you're Jewish." I was rolling.
"Just get in the van or I'll tell them you're Jewish." I was rolling.
Fuhrman all but admitted he had planted evidence when he took the fifth,
It's too bad they didn't show Barry Scheck's closing speech to the jury because he was brilliant. Basically he said if you find a bug in a bowl of spaghetti you don't go searching through the bowl strand by strand to see if there are any more bugs, you throw the whole bowl out right then and there. In other words,…
He knew it but he could never accept it.
Best performance by a bit player: the look on that white juror's face when she realized she would have to vote with her head instead of her gut because the prosecution hadn't proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
I can tell you as a black woman that during the trial and for a long time afterwards, Darden was reviled in the black community as an Uncle Tom. He may not have left the community, but the community had pretty much given up on him.
I think he would have been. I don't see Cochran as being the type of person to kick someone who is already down. You may remember during the trial Cochran advised Darden to let Clark handle Furhman. Darden thought Cochran was trying to mess with his head but his dad told him "Maybe Johnnie's just trying to give you…
They are doing some great work. I have a lot of respect for Barry Scheck for persevering with the project after he was practically exiled by the Jewish community for helping OJ get off.
I can tell you now that within two months after that verdict, I and most of my black friends, neighbors and co-workers were absolutely disgusted with OJ. He should have disappeared immediately after the trial and kept a very low profile instead of showing himself everywhere waiting for his rich white friends to give…
I watched it also. Scheck was the best lawyer on the team by far and his closing summation was brilliant. His Innocence Project is doing some really great work.
I was disgusted with that whole party scene at OJ's house after he was acquitted. The guy had just gotten away with murder. If he had any sense he would have kept a very low profile, moved his money into some offshore accounts where nobody could touch it, and retire to an island in the Caribbean somewhere but…
I'm not sure if you realize it, but Cochran's welcome back comment was totally on point. Darden was pretty much ostracized by the black community during the trial. He was excoriated for being an Uncle Tom. Darden went to his church one Sunday during the trial, a black Baptist church in his neighborhood, and the…
And he hasn't grown up in the past 20 years. To this day he still maintains that Johnnie Cochran tampered with the gloves so they wouldn't fit.
It was too bad they had to leave out Barry Scheck's summation speech. I watched it last night on the Esquire Channel and he was absolutely brilliant. I thought his whole character was underplayed in what was otherwise an excellent series.
No way I'm missing the finale:
Karma doesn't work like that, alas.
Payback's a mo-fo, and karma can be a stone bitch.
In other words, you're mad at Cochran for gloating. But after having spent decades asserting that black people in LA were abused by the police, having his claims dismissed by whites as nonsense, and then being able to throw the proof of what he'd been claiming all along right back in their faces, he'd wouldn't be…
Done which— walked out of the courtroom or beat the hell out of Fuhrman?
You have a problem with #2?