Chris Darden, a prosecutor working with Marcia Clark, wrote a book about this. I forget the name of it, but after reading it I had no question OJ was guilty. For the record, Chris Darden is black.
And has been a criminal defense attorney since shortly after the OJ case was tried.
That was a good move. He got to see true masters of the craft in action and learned by getting beat by them.
Maybe someday he'll be mentioned among the likes of Johnny Cochran, Gerry Spence, Kirk Freeman, Esq, F lee Bailey, and Alan Dershowitz.
I hear that Darden started asking questions and then some deputies took him to a bathroom to see what kind of package he was packing....so he's well on his way to emulating one of that august group.
I watched oj : made in America
Oj did it, obviously, and the jurors only exonerated him in retaliation for Rodney king (specifically 3 of them said so). Robert Shapiro went on to interview the day after acquittal with Diane sawyer to say he felt indifferent to Johnnie Cochran 'S use of Hitler and the Nazis (describing lapd) in his closing.
Imho oj was,never on trial...it was the lapd 'S previous 2 or 3 yrs of behavior (prior to the trial) that were put under the microscope
Yeah, to find silver linings in the OJ criminal trial, it pushed many jurisdictions to become more professional in how crime scenes were processed and how investigations were conducted. It reflects a time-marker between old-school and new-school chain of custody, etc. Sure, not all jurisdictions crossed over right away, and some were adopting new procedures anyway, but it was a horror story writ large.
I like how Barry Scheck was portrayed in the Netflix show. He really was on the bleeding edge (pardon the terrible pun) of the technology and the law.