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Thread ID: 17565 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2005-03-29
2005-03-29 23:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Superstar Lawyer Johnnie Cochran Dies Famed Attorney Represented O.J. Simpson at His Murder Trial By GREG RISLING, AP
LOS ANGELES (March 29) - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote ''If it doesn't fit, you must acquit,'' died Tuesday. He was 67.
Cochran died of a brain disorder in Los Angeles, said law partner Randy McMurray.
''Certainly, Johnnie's career will be noted as one marked by celebrity cases and clientele,'' his family said in a statement. ''But he and his family were most proud of the work he did on behalf of those in the community.''
With his colorful suits and ties, his gift for courtroom oratory and a knack for coining memorable phrases, Cochran was a vivid addition to the pantheon of great American barristers.
The ''if it doesn't fit'' phrase would be quoted and parodied for years afterward. It derived from a dramatic moment during which Simpson tried on a pair of bloodstained ''murder gloves'' to show jurors they did not fit. Some legal experts called it the turning point in the trial.
Soon after, jurors found the Hall of Fame football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
For Cochran, Simpson's acquittal was the crowning achievement in a career notable for victories, often in cases with racial themes. He was a black man known for championing the causes of black defendants. Some of them, like Simpson, were famous, but more often than not they were unknowns.
''The clients I've cared about the most are the No Js, the ones who nobody knows,'' said Cochran, who proudly displayed copies in his office of the multimillion-dollar checks he won for ordinary citizens who said they were abused by police.
''People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner,'' he once said.
By the time Simpson called, the byword in the black community for defendants facing serious charges was: ''Get Johnnie.''
AP-NY-03-29-05 18:35 EST
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. [/QUOTE]
....and Jerry Falwell seems poised to go next.
2005-03-30 00:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE]''People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner,'' he once said.[/QUOTE] Could that be because those muggers are their children?
2005-03-30 00:31 | User Profile
[IMG]http://www.cochranfirm.com/images/home-johnniecochran.jpg[/IMG] "If you tell a lie, then you must die!" [url]www.cochranfirm.com/[/url]
2005-03-30 03:36 | User Profile
I always called him Johnnie Cockroach. That seemed to be the most fitting name.
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2005-03-30 03:50 | User Profile
If the tumor does not fit then you must ... die.
2005-03-30 04:10 | User Profile
The Raid finally kicked in.
2005-03-30 04:41 | User Profile
If you're famous, black, and a murderer, Johnnie was your best friend.
2005-03-30 18:06 | User Profile
Well, at least he was a pain in the ass of the scumbag pigs of the LAPD and the NYPD. But he was a lowlife himself. I'm certainly not going to miss him.
...and Jerry Falwell seems poised to go next. And I wish he'd hurry up so I can dance on his grave.
2005-03-30 18:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Well, at least he was a pain in the ass of the scumbag pigs of the LAPD and the NYPD.[/QUOTE]He certainly deserves credit for this:
[url=http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/763074/posts]California Town to pay $3 million, Apologize for Drug Raid Death[/url]
2005-03-30 18:37 | User Profile
He fathered 2 mongrels with his ex White wife and I believe two more on the side with his other "family" (with his White mistress). Typical nigger behaviour. Is anyone surprised that the scumbag chose to impregnate White women? I'm not.
[B]In one of the great tacky episodes of all time, Johnnie Cochran's first wife and his white mistress, who goes by the name of Patricia Cochran, joined forces on Geraldo to let Johnnie Cochran have it on the day after he tried to convince the jury that important evidence at the crime scene had been moved or contaminated by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Patricia Cochran told Geraldo, "Before they selected the jury, I asked him, 'Johnnie, what are you going to do?' And he said, 'Sweetheart...just give me one black person on that jury--that's all I ask, one,' and he could get a hung jury."[/B]
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2005-03-30 18:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Well, at least he was a pain in the ass of the scumbag pigs of the LAPD and the NYPD...[/QUOTE] This story reminds me again how the prosecuting attorneys, and Judge Ito, were baffled, buffaloed, and bitch-slapped by Cochran in the OJ Simpson case.
2005-03-30 19:13 | User Profile
Cochran was farcical, but a true playa. Nigga was no fool --- he knew exactly how to milk the white system, and he could play the udders like the sax. He spent his career defending equally comical black thugs and murderers --- Snoop Dogg, O.J., you name it. In partnership with infuriating kikes like Dershowitz, he only got bigger. You will have difficulty locating an aggrieved white coal miner on his client list.
A strong white America wouldn't have had him. There would simply be no entertainment of his claims and defenses. His violent black clients would simply be tagged, bagged and dragged.
2005-03-30 20:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE]This story reminds me again how the prosecuting attorneys, and Judge Ito, were baffled, buffaloed, and bitch-slapped by Cochran in the OJ Simpson case.[/QUOTE] Ito was an incompetent judge. I watched about 10 minutes of the trial and saw him mangle an elementary evidence issue.