We had had some jury readback the first day of so-called deliberations, and the readback had to do with a witness, Allan Park, the limousine driver, who I felt was a very good witness for us -- in many ways, one of the critical witnesses in the whole case. The preliminary hearing took about a week. Simpson has brought the contributions of even the non-famous participants in the "Trial of the Century" to light. You could feel that dynamic even during the course of jury selection. "Do you think the system failed in the O.J. To this day, I have people come up to me, sometimes with tears in their eyes, holding their toddler, asking: "Are things going to be all right? Some of his other work, when he was up at Rockingham, O.J.
phenomenon in terms of the trial of the case, the judicial oversight of the case. And you're accurate when you question whether this was a trial. -- that sort of thing. I'm not going to do it the same way. Everything seemed sensationalized. Simpson.
And I had to check myself: Did I just hear that, or did I imagine that? lodger] Kato Kaelin had provided the detectives who were there. did this to [her]. And we hoped to establish a historical context. We could have very well filed the case in Santa Monica. The glove is a key piece of evidence, and it has to be Mark Fuhrman." Absolutely. And we failed at that in the Simpson case. Do we allow this at the expense of justice? I could not read the jury. Wasn't it more of a "race deck" than a race card?Well, there was an environment that was conducive to the defense playing that card. And it's true. What would you have done differently if you could go back and retry this case?Well, I think there are things that could have been done differently, stylistically, from even having a different array of lawyers and the like. Simpson.
Simpson's home, was very intuitive and very sharp.
Simpson who committed these horrible crimes. And that sort of response has been very encouraging to me. Some people have suggested to me that it took the train wreck of the Simpson case, that judicial disaster, to bring about this sort of reform and to heighten the awareness of the importance of jury service by everyone, to heighten the awareness of domestic violence in our society, and how for a long time it could be argued the system [turned] a blind eye to the scourge of domestic violence.
I think the verdicts were an injustice, a failure of justice. acquittal?I think it can be summed up in four words: payback for Rodney King.The afternoon after the verdicts came in, I was in my office, and after having spent time briefly with the Brown family, more time with the Goldman family, attempting to console them as well as console the junior members of our own team who were quite distraught over the verdicts, ... there was a knock at the door, and a couple deputy sheriffs came in. All of these things were affected by the Simpson case. I think one thing that has happened as well is that judges are more reluctant to allow the gavel-to-gavel [TV] coverage. He wound up caring for her as her dementia worsened. There would have been a sense held by many -- I would say the majority -- that justice had been done. Simpson. It took us an intolerably long period of time to get the DNA evidence presented. It was a very heartrending, poignant, sad train of evidence that led ultimately to her murder.
Friday, July 31, 2020 And quite frankly, I had seen, going into the Simpson [trial], an increasing trend towards more and more cameras in the courtroom, allowing the sort of gavel-to-gavel coverage. The cases are filed in the appropriate venue, and it's something the courts now recognize and insist upon. It was just a refusal to either accept or to value that evidence of abuse, of Simpson beating Nicole and the evidence of O.J. I didn't know what to expect.
That was payback for Rodney King.'" If it were up to me, if I were the elected D.A. He said, "I was hearing from the very beginning of the case, 'This is going to be payback for Rodney King. How would they react? case of justice not done, and in part because of the location where the case was tried. And even though stylistically it could have been done better, I don't think the lessons would have been learned.