Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L Cochran, Jr.was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. J. Simpson for the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth2 October 1937
CountryUnited States of America
african against almost america committed crimes legal three time
It was time in America for African Americans to take retribution for the legal crimes that had been committed against them for almost three centuries.
against angeles came case cases city civil felt law left los morally office practice practicing private time violation won
When I first started practicing law in the 1960s, no person had ever won a case against the City of Los Angeles for violation of their civil rights. There came a time when I felt morally I just could not try these cases anymore. I then left the office and my time in private practice has been interesting to say the least.
admitting against caught detective earlier evidence found legitimate places present proved reason simpson supposedly thoroughly unknown unusual
We proved that the most important evidence against O.J. Simpson had supposedly been found in unusual places by a thoroughly racist LAPD detective-a detective who had been caught on audiotapes made years earlier admitting the LAPD planted evidence-a detective who for some unknown reason had been present in places he had no legitimate reason to be.
simpson
O.J. Simpson always said he didn't do it.
verge
As you know, we are on the verge of resting, but I think we are going to have to re-evaluate that.
aware bob came planting played problem pursue race talking
The one problem that I would like for him to be aware of ... Bob Shapiro had started talking about Fuhrman planting the glove long before I ever came on the case. And, in fact, we never played any race card. What we did was pursue the credibility card.
june
It was about 10:25 p.m. on June 12, 1994, right?,
defense felt people strongly tragic understand
These were tragic deaths. I think that people don't understand that we, on the defense, felt that very strongly also.
jackson michael naive question wear
But that's who Michael Jackson is, he's a very, very naive person in many respects, and there's no question about that. Yeah, he does wear a bull's eye,
courage empowered nobody stop wrong
Nobody has had the courage to say this is wrong. You are empowered to say this is wrong ... Stop this cover-up! Stop this cover-up!
courage nobody
Nobody has had the courage to say this is wrong,
clear client custody explain face police punched slammed took
Nothing is going to clear his client of what took place here, ... He will never be able to explain a 16-year-old, or any person, in custody slammed on the police car, punched in the face when he's helpless. There is no explanation for that.
cap knit
If I put this knit cap on, who am I?
asked case lawyer mention move provided simpson somewhat television
The only mention I'll make of the Simpson case is that it provided a sea-change for all of our lives. I'm still the same lawyer as I was before, but the opportunities were somewhat different and I was asked to move to New York, at least part of the time, to do a television show.