JOHNNIE COCHRAN......DEAD

[GM]

No, I wasn't saying your interest in current events is strange at all. I meant only what I said...that I was amazed that anyone could have the entire trial on tape. It was on daily, for months. Since CD burning technology did not exist at the time, it must have been in VHS format originally, which would take up a ton of room and require buying a LOT of tape. Recording it all would have been awkward and would have required you to be present to switch tapes when they filled up, etc. So this must have been a fairly laborious task, and I was curious how someone would go about recording all that footage at the time? Did you videotape it all and then transfer it to CD? Or were you able to obtain copies of it in CD form? If so, from whom?

You seem very well versed on the evidence in the trial, so I do have no doubt you've paid very close attention to it. Though I don't agree with your views on his innocence, I meant no disrespect.

As for my comment about "one-tenth of a drop of blood"...I was being facetious. Since a "drop" isn't a unit of measurement, one-tenth of a drop is still a drop, isn't it?

 

[Kdogg21]

oh yea thats right OJ is out busy trying to catch the 'real killers'.....

i know alot about the trial since we had to research for the class we were in. I guess everybody is going to have their 'own' facts, but everything i put out there was in the testimony.

 

[Kdogg21]

I think what is really sick is that some of these jurors thought that OJ did it, but since the police work was a little spotty, that went with not guilty. unreal. i go blow up a school and i the police work is bad, i may be let go, just because of somebody else's problem.

 

[fatdaddycool]

GM,
Was actually living in France at the time and it was basically one of the only things on in english and as I was working midnights and slept most of the day my wife would change the tapes for me. It was extremely laborious yet very gratifying for me as I am very interested in this sort of thing and watch alot of trial coverage. No offense taken..............cheers

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Johnnie Cochran Looks to Raise His Profile Locally

By James V. Grimaldi, Washington Post Staff Writer

Everyone deserves a second chance. So Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. now is looking for a fresh start in Washington after his decade-long relationship with former House Ethics Committee counsel Ralph Lotkin has gone fallow.

For reasons he declined to discuss, the Los Angeles-based Cochran has abandoned his affiliation with the Washington-based firm formerly known as Cochran & Lotkin, and now is teaming up in a joint venture with Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, one of the largest plaintiffs' firms in town.

Since helping O.J. Simpson beat a charge of murdering his ex-wife, Cochran has turned his firm, Cochran, Cherry, Givens & Smith, also known as the Cochran Firm, into a national personal-injury practice.

But despite work on a number of high-profile local cases, Cochran has been largely invisible on the local legal scene while affiliated with Lotkin. The relationship with Cohen, Milstein could provide a boost to his lagging practice here. Lotkin did not return a phone call seeking comment.

 

[Marco]

As far as the innocence of Scott Peterson, Robert Blake....Phil Spector......that is for a court/jury to decide. Lynch mobs went out with the old west.

I wasn't a juror in the OJ trial, and didn't get to hear and see all the evidence that was provided at the trial. I have some of my own thoughts about the case, but had I sat on the jury of the original trial perhaps I would have seen the case the way they did and voted the same way.

I still think the civil suit was a crock of $hit, that any monetary award should have been based on the outcome of the criminal trial....

To award a huge monetary award after the original trial found him not guilty would be the same as an average poster in this forum going to court over a traffic case, winning the case, only to have the judge say that you will still have to pay the fine. WTF is that?