CBS2's Pat Harvey recently sat down with Carl Douglas, a member of OJ's "Dream Team" -- a group of some of LA's highest-profile defense attorneys, among them Robert Shapiro, F. Lee Bailey and Johnnie Cochran. Douglas showed Harvey a group photograph of the ...
Just think back about it: the Bronco chase, celebrity witnesses like Kato Kaelin, among other people, celebrity defense lawyers and the dream team including Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. The media coverage was just extraordinary and unprecedented," Medrano said. He added: "...
Simpson's lawyer Patricia Palm said she spoke briefly with the former football star from prison, and said he was disappointed but would appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. Simpson's new defense team argued that his original lawyers botched his case. "We're confident that when we get to the...
there was no blood. This leads us into question about whether or not racism played a role in the lengthiest trial in United States history. With the help of a strong team of forensic experts, the lawyers were able to identify irregularities in the conduct of the investigation by LAPD detect...
Larsen, Stephen
In the 1994 letter Simpson's lawyers read to the nation while the former football star fled police during the Bronco chase, Simpson expressed satisfaction with the life he'd lived until that point. "I've had a good life. I'm proud of how I lived. My mama taught me to do unto others...
Another thing that went wrong was the prosecutor’s witnesses began to sell their stories to the media, and book deals. When this happens lawyers call these “cash for trash”. Cash for trash is known witnesses who sell their testimony for money and is usually not credible anymore. With the...
During some five hours of testimony, Simpson portrayed Mr Galanter as a forceful presence who would not listen to other lawyers, stubbornly refused to let him testify in his own defence and never hired the team of investigators and expert witnesses he promised. OJ Simpson takes his glasses off...
("We are as up to date as the lawyers are," boasted a Canadian OJ website owner of his 10,000 users. "It makes for intelligent discussions.") But here's the thing: next to the wall-to-wall cable TV coverage and the screaming front pages, those online discussions often did seem ...
O.J. Simpson and his defense team in October 1995 as the not-guilty verdict is read during his trial for the killing of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. (Myung J. Chun/Pool) In 1994 and 1995, when lawyers for O.J. Simpson offered up the possibility that the former football...