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Johnnie Cochran, who broke into another stratosphere of fame after helping O.J. Simpson get acquitted, died yesterday at age 67. He had been suffering from a brain tumor and died in his son's home in Los Angeles. While Cochran took pride in his career as a civil rights lawyer, the Simpson case, culminating with Cochran's uttering of "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" truly made him a household name and fair game in popular culture (Seinfeld had "Jackie Chiles," a wacky and showman lawyer that was a little more than just similar to Cochran).
The NY Times noted Cochran's New York connection:
Mr. Cochran helped pay a libel judgment against the Rev. Al Sharpton, erasing a political liability, "because," Mr. Cochran said, "New York needs Al Sharpton." Mr. Cochran was himself an occasional plaintiff. In 1997, Andrea Peyser wrote a column about Mr. Cochran's representation of Ms. Louima in The New York Post. "History reveals," Ms. Peyser wrote, referring to the Simpson case, that Mr. Cochran "will say or do just about anything to win, typically at the expense of the truth."LAist on Cochran's death.Mr. Cochran filed a libel suit. In 1998, a federal judge in Los Angeles, Kim McLane Wardlaw, agreed with Mr. Cochran about what Ms. Peyser meant - "that he 'made up the police conspiracy theory' during O.J. Simpson's criminal trial 'to save the guilty O.J. Simpson.'" The statement was still, Judge Wardlaw concluded in dismissing the suit, an opinion protected by the First Amendment.
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Today he's opening a special new wing of hell that's being dedicated to him.
I hope that wing is large enough to accommodate Al Sharpton and OJ.
if it does not remit, you must obit.
on the plus side, he did some serious damage to the lapd, who most certainly deserved the skeeziest gadfly on earth attacking them for their abuses.
Too bad HR and Nola aren't there in hell to greet him. You insensitive, racist bastards!
Wow, not much love around here for Johnnie Cochran! Well, another New York thing to mention is that he was also counsel for Abner Louima after he was sodomized by the NYPD.
Guess I didn't think people thought about Johnnie Cochran enough to dislike him this much. Huh.
Like many others in the 90's, JC benefitted enourmously from whom fate handed him in opponents.
Love him or hate him, he *was* damned entertaining.
Insensitive, definitely. But racist? Didn't he help spring a murderer?
Rappers here in NY will have to stop getting into trouble as who else is good enough to get you off murder.
All is all.. Jonnie Cochran did some bad things and a lot of good things. It's unfair to bash this guy over OJ when you really don't know what he did, or what he came out of pocket. I don't expect you to do the journalist thing and research who the man is, but this knee jerk dissing of the guy without at least googling him is disheartening. Shame on you.
Shame on you for assuming I don't know more about the guy than you. He knowingly helped spring a murderer and that's enough to earn a good dissing.
Yes, it's a job. You are entitled to be defended in this country. You would want the best lawyer to defend you if you were sued or bought into criminal court. He is good at what he does. I think OJ murdered them, but that certainly doesn't fall on John's shoulders.
Why don't you blame the jury of his peers that elected to set him free? Or the bungled prosecution?
You are spewing against Johnnie Cochran for some reason that would interesting if you actually were able to verbalize it.
You don't know Johnnie. It obvious.