Sept. 26, 2025
8 DAYS OF O.J. - "THE DREAM TEAM ASSEMBLES: How O.J. Simpson Bought His Freedom in January 1995" - Day 1
Reid Carter begins the unprecedented 8-day O.J. Simpson retrospective with January 1995 - the month the prosecution lost the case before testimony began. Judge Lance Ito becomes America's first celebrity judge while Johnnie Cochran assembles legal superheroes with O.J.'s millions. Marcia Clark's overconfident opening statement meets Cochran's "conspiracy" preview as the Dream Team roster takes shape. Christopher Darden gets appointed in a desperate attempt at racial balance while the prosecution fumbles jury selection, letting Cochran pack the panel with people predisposed to acquit. Thirty years later, Reid reveals how O.J. Simpson didn't just escape justice - he purchased it wholesale in the first month.
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Caaleroga Shark Media. This is Reed Carter, Friday, September twenty sixth,
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twenty twenty five. For the next eight days, we're taking
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a break from live trial coverage to examine the trial
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that changed everything, The trial that taught celebrities how to
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get away with murder, The trial that turned justice into
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entertainment and evidence into theater. Eight days, eight months, one
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episode for every month of the trial that lasted from
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January through September nineteen ninety five. Eight months that felt
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like eight years if you were the families of Nicole
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Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman watching a killer perform for
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cameras while their loved ones became props in his defense.
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October third, nineteen ninety five, thirty years ago. Next week,
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the day one hundred and fifty million Americans watched a
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double murderer walk free. Four hours of jury deliberation that
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ignored mountains of DNA evidence, ignored a trail of blood
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from the crime scene to the defendant's bedroom, ignored everything
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except the color of the defendant's skin and the badges
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of the cops who caught him. This is the story
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of how oj Simpson bought his freedom, How Johnny Cochrane
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sold a jury on conspiracy theories. How Marcia Clark lost
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the case before it started. How Judge Lance Edo turned
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his courtroom into a television studio. How the prosecution handed
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the defense every weapon they needed to commit legal murder. Look.
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I've covered trials for fifteen years. I've seen prosecutors fumble cases.
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I've seen judges make terrible decisions. I've seen juries nullify evidence.
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But what happened over these eight months wasn't just a
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miscarriage of justice. It was a systematic dismantling of the
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concept that evidence matters more than performance. Eight episodes examining
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how a straightforward double homicide became a referendum on race, celebrity,
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and police corruption. How two innocent people, Nicole Brown Simpson
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and Ronald Goldman became footnotes in their own murder case.
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I'm reed, Carter, Welcome to Eight Days of OJ. This
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is how you get away with murder in America. January
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nineteen ninety five, Bill Clinton as president, the Internet barely exists,
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Court TV is two years old, nobody has heard of
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DNA evidence, and OJ Simpson, former football hero turned accused
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double murderer, is about to teach America that fame plus
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money equals a different kind of justice. The stage was
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set the moment Judge lance Eto walked into Department one
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h three of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Ito should
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have been a footnote in legal history. Instead, he became
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the biggest celebrity judge in America because he couldn't resist
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the cameras. Picture this January third, nine, eighteen ninety five,
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the media is already circling like vultures. CNN wants wall
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to wall coverage. Court TV sees ratings gold and Judge Eto,
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who'd spent his career in relative anonymity, suddenly has the
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most famous court room in the world. What does he do.
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He could have banned cameras, could have moved the trial,
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could have controlled the circus. Instead, he embraces it. He
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allows full television coverage. He starts giving interviews, he poses
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for photographs. Judge lance Eto just became the first reality
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TV judge and he loved every minute of it. That
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decision allowing cameras changed everything. This wasn't going to be
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about evidence anymore. It was going to be about performance,
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and nobody understood performance better than the team. OJ Simpson
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was assembling with his millions. January fourth, nineteen ninety five,
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the arraignment, OJ pleads not guilty to murdering Nicole Brown,
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Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Standard stuff, except nothing about this
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case would ever be standard because of the man standing
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next to OJ at the defense table, Johnny Cochran, the
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best defense attorney money could buy, and OJ Simpson had
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a lot of money. But here's what really gets me
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about January nineteen ninety five. This wasn't just in competence.
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This was systematic failure over thirty one agonizing days. Thirty
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one days where every decision made Nicole and Ron's families
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watch their loved ones killer assemble the most expensive legal
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team in history. January fourth, nineteen ninety five, the arraignment,
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OJ pleads not guilty to murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and
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Ronald Goldman. Standard stuff, right, accept Nothing about this case
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would ever be standard because of the man standing next
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to OJ at the defense table, Johnny Cochran. And I'm
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going to tell you something. Cochran knew he was going
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to win this case the moment he saw the jury pool.
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I've watched the footage, I've read the transcripts. Cochrane had
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this case figured out before the prosecution even understood what
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they were up against. Cochrane wasn't just a lawyer. He
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was a showman, a preacher, a magician who could make juries,
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forget about evidence and focus on emotion. He specialized in
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police misconduct cases, which meant he knew exactly how to
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make the LAPD look like the villains instead of the investigators.
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And in January nineteen ninety five, the LAPD had handed
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him everything he needed. But Cochrane wasn't working alone. OJ
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was spending millions millions to assemble what the media dubbed
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the dream Team, and this took weeks to put together,
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week after week in January, while Nicole and Ron's families
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watched their killer by his freedom, one attorney at a time.
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This wasn't just legal defense. This was an all star
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lineup of attorneys, each with their own specialty, each costing
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more per hour than most people make in a month.
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And here's what I think really happened. I think Cochrane
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called each of these attorneys and told them exactly what
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he was planning, not just to defend OJ, but to
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put the LAPD on trial instead. Robert Shapiro had the
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celebrity connections. He'd represented Hollywood stars and understood how fame
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could be weaponized in court. Shapiro knew that O. J.
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Simpson the celebrity, was more valuable than OJ Simpson the defendant.
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He'd make sure the jury remembered Nordberg from the Naked
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Gun movies, not the man whose blood was found at
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the murder scene. F Lee Bailey brought the cross examination reputation.
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Bailey had destroyed witnesses for decades. He could take a
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police officer's testimony and turn it into a confession of incompetence.
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He was surgical with words, and he was about to
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perform an autopsy on the LAPD's credibility. Alan Dershowitz provided
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constitutional expertise. Dershowitz knew every loophole, every technicality, every way
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to challenge evidence before it reached the jury. He was
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the insurance policy against prosecutorial overreach, which in this case
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meant any evidence that pointed to Ojay's guilt. But the
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secret weapon was Barry Sheck. Barry Sheck understood DNA evidence
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better than the prosecutors who were trying to use it.
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DNA was new in nineteen ninety five. Juries didn't understand it,
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prosecutors barely understood it. But Sheck Shech could make DNA
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evidence disappear in a cloud of scientific jargon and contamination theories.
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This was the dream team. Five attorneys who together cost
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more than most people's houses, Five legal superstars who were
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about to teach America that the right lawyers can make
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evidence irrelevant, witnesses unreliable, and murder look like persecution. And
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against this dream team, the prosecution decided to send Marcia
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Clark and Christopher Darden, two overworked District Attorney's office prosecutors,
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against the most expensive legal defense in American history. It
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was like sending a public defender to argue against the
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Supreme Court. January twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five, opening statements.
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This is where Marcia Clark should have won the case.
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She had everything, DNA evidence, blood evidence, a trail of
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domestic violence, opportunity, motive. She had oj Simpson's blood at
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the crime scene and the victim's blood in his car
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and his house. But instead of presenting a simple murder case,
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Clark decided to give a lecture. And this frustrates me
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to this day because I think, and I could be
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wrong about this. I think Clark was so overwhelmed by
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the media circus that she forgot who her audience was.
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She wasn't talking to scientists, she was talking to twelve
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people who just wanted to know who killed Nicole and Ron.
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Clark talked about the complexity of DNA evidence. She explained
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the sophisticated testing procedures. She showed charts and graphs that
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made jury members eyes glaze over like they were back
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in high school chemistry class. Clark's opening statement lasted two days,
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two entire days of scientific testimony that no one understood,
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two days of technical details that proved oj was guilty
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but convinced no one he was evil. She forgot the
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first rule of prosecution. Don't just prove they did it,
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make the jury want to convict them. Meanwhile, Johnny Cochrane
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stood up and delivered a masterpiece of manipulation. No charts,
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no DNA lectures, just a simple story about a man
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being framed by racist cops. And watching this thirty years later,
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I can see exactly when Cochran won this case. It
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was the moment he said, rush to judgment, ladies and gentlemen,
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of the jury, Cochran began, this case is about a
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rush to judgment. This case is about police misconduct. This
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case is about planting evidence to frame an innocent man
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because the real killers got away, planting evidence, police misconduct,
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rush to judgment. Cochrane wasn't defending O. J. Simpson. He
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was prosecuting the U, the LAPD, and with Mark Furman
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about to be exposed as a racist liar, Cochrane had
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the perfect villain to replace OJ as the real defendant.
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Cochrane's opening was poetry. He talked about how OJ was
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a hero who broke barriers, how he was beloved by
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fans of all races, how he was being destroyed by
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corrupt cops who couldn't accept that their investigation was sloppy
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and their evidence was contaminated. The real killer or killers
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are still out there, Cochrane declared, And the police, rather
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than admit their mistakes, have chosen to frame mister Simpson
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frame job. That was the defense, not that OJ didn't
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do it, but that he was being framed for something
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he didn't do. It was brilliant because it didn't require
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proving innocence, It only required proving doubt, and with the
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LAPD's reputation for corruption, reasonable doubt was going to be
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easy to sell. But the prosecution made another fatal mistake
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that month. They appointed Christopher Darden as co prosecutor and
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the reason to provide racial balance against Cochrane. Think about that.
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The District Attorney's office looked at the most important murder
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case in decades and decided they needed a black prosecutor
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to counter the defense's black attorney, as if race mattered
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more than competence, as if justice was about matching skin
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colors instead of presenting evidence. Darden was talented, but he
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was also emotional. He took the case personally. He saw
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Cochrane's racial appeals as attacks on his own credibility, and
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when you take a case personally, you make personal mistakes,
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fatal mistakes. The biggest mistake came with jury selection. January
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turned into February, with the prosecution helping Cochrane pack the
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jury with people predisposed to acquit. The defense wanted African
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American jurors who'd experienced police misconduct. The prosecution should have
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fought this, should have looked for jurors who'd convict based
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on evidence, regardless of the defendant's race or the investigating
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officer's flaws. Instead, they accepted a jury that included people
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who'd sued police departments, people who distrusted the LAPD, people
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who saw OJ Simpson as a hero, and police officers
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as enemies. The prosecution let Cochrane hand pick a jury
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that would believe the LAPD was more dangerous than a
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double murderer. Jury selection is everything. You can have DNA evidence,
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blood evidence, witness testimony, and a confession, but if the
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jury doesn't want to convict, they'll find a reason to acquit.
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And this jury was selected by people who didn't want
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OJ Simpson to be guilty. The media circus was already
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out of control by the end of January. Judge Edo's
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decision to allow cameras meant every moment was televised, Every
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objection was analyzed, every facial expression was scrutinized. The trial
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became entertainment, and entertainment doesn't require truth, just drama. Court
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TV made this case their Super Bowl, CNN covered it
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like a war. The three major networks interrupted programming for testimony.
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This wasn't just a trial anymore. It was America's favorite
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TV show, and TV shows need heroes and villains, not
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evidence and facts. We'll be right back with how the
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prosecution lost the case before February even began, and why
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Johnny Cochrane was already planning his victory speech. Welcome back
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to Eight Days of OJ. I'm Red Carter, and we're
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examining how January nineteen ninety five set the stage for
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the most outrageous acquittal in American legal history. By the
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end of January, the fix was in not because of
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corruption or conspiracy, but because of incompetence and ego. The
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prosecution had made every mistake possible, while the defense executed
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a perfect game plan. Judge Eto was more concerned with
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his television ratings than controlling his courtroom. The prosecution was
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more concerned with appearing racially balanced than being competent, and
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the defense was more concerned with creating reasonable doubt than
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discovering truth. But let's talk about what was really happening
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behind the scenes in January nineteen ninety five. While Cochrane
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was assembling his dream team and Clark was preparing her
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DNA lectures, the evidence against O. J. Simpson was overwhelming.
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His blood was found at the Bundye crime scene, where
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Nicole and Ron were slaughtered. Their blood was found in
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his white broncho. Nikole's blood was found on the socks
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in his bedroom. Ron's blood was found on the glove
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behind his house. The timeline put him at the scene
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during the murders. He had fresh cuts on his hands
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the next day. He couldn't account for his whereabouts during
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the time of the murders. This wasn't a who done it?
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This was a how did he think he'd get away
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with it? But OJ Simpson knew something about American justice
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that prosecutors didn't understand. Fame plus money plus the right
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lawyers equals reasonable doubt, even when guilt is unreasonable. The
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dream Team's strategy was already clear by January's end. They
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weren't going to prove Oj didn't kill Nicole and Ron.
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to investigate anyone, especially a black celebrity. They were going
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to turn victim into villain and evidence into conspiracy. Mark
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Furman was about to become the real defendant. The racist
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cop who found key evidence would be exposed as a
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liar who said he never used racial slurs. The LAPD's
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