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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I guess my confusion was over the fact that you said in your post that all you took out of the case was that Cochran and Scheck were amazing lawyers (presumably because of the staging of OJ's house, which seems like the first thing anyone with half a brain would think of if the jury was going to be there). But I'm not trying to find an argument where there isn't one. I just thought there was a little more that came out of that case.
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Well, as I recall, the jury also visited Nicole's condo, and it had been stripped of everything, and was bare and vacant for the visit. Of course, as you pointed out, the prosecution was, to put it kindly, inept. And even if it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that a huge picture of a naked white chick in the Juice's living room was problematic, replacing it with the Norman Rockwell print was, indeed, inspired.
And the verdict certainly ignited a national dialog, but I am old, so I already knew that rich defendants tend to do better in the criminal justice system than poor ones, and that whites and blacks tend to have differing takes on the fairness of said system. Oh, and that the LAPD had not been known for its enlightened history in race relations (Sam Yorty, anyone?). That's why I said that the skills of Cochran and Schreck was what I took from the trial.
