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Two of the attorneys related to O.J. Simpson‘s notorious prison trial are reflecting on the case’s lasting influence on the justice system, and society at massive … and so they view key points from the trial very in a different way.
Gloria Allred, famed lawyer and ladies’s rights advocate, joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live” to share her reminiscences of representing Nicole Brown Simpson‘s household.
Allred recalled the second Simpson was acquitted — she was in court docket, sitting subsequent to Nicole’s father and her sister, Denise — and regardless of the decision, she says she was assured he had killed Nicole and Ron Goldman.
She was fast to level out that the jury in his wrongful demise civil trial agreed when, in 1997, they discovered him chargeable for the deaths.
Allred does admit there have been invaluable classes that got here out of Simpson’s prison trial … together with encouraging ladies’s rights teams to carry males accountable, in the event that they commit violent acts in opposition to ladies.
And, though Simpson’s protection group efficiently painted O.J. because the sufferer of racist cops throughout a number of months of testimony … Allred says the case was actually about gender violence.
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However, Brian Dunn — at the moment managing director of The Cochran Agency in L.A. — labored intently with Johnnie Cochran again then, and says the trial’s central tenet was race relations … including, the case introduced consideration to some big elephants within the room.
Dunn says the trial continues to be talked about a lot due to that racial ingredient — with questions of racial injustice making it not possible for the general public to easily let it go.
Certainly, nearly instantly after information broke about Simpson’s death, social media reactions made it clear individuals are nonetheless divided on his guilt or innocence … regardless of the mountains of proof — DNA and in any other case — introduced throughout his prison trial.
BD additionally talked about Cochran’s legacy … whereas talking from Johnnie’s workplace no much less. JC handed away in 2005, however we’re advised the agency stored the workplace completely the identical within the years following his demise.
Simpson’s household introduced his demise through X Thursday, saying he was surrounded by his youngsters and grandchildren when he died.
