him and said, oh my god, he did it. i just remember screaming. probably the scariest moment my entire life. it was physically painful. it was not justice. the murders took only minutes. all these years later, the shock has yet to fade. it was a stunning time. and american legal theater. you think you might know the story of the oj simpson case, but there s a lot you probably haven t heard and seen. did nicole brown simpson actually predicts her own death? what she said to us was that oj is going to kill me. and he s going to get away with it. what went on in the jury room? not guilty of the crime of murder. all the people wanted to do was go home. in a frank interview prosecutor marsha clark answers the most important question of all. how did you not convict this guy? june 12th, 1994. brentwood, california. two horrific murders that came to be defined by just three words. the oj case. everybody seen a dramatic scene in both victims had their throats/
if it s not called i am trying to get the optimum advantage to win. the play hardball in the big leagues. this was the big leagues. and, there was a lot more hardball to be played. starting with that evidence cops had collected up the crime scene and at simpson s estate. the defense you have to dismiss it, quickly and cleverly with just four little words. garbage, and garbage. on garbage, and garbage out became a strategy. if there was evidence that was contaminated or corrupted then the result and the conclusions could not be trusted. for example, a key blood samples that wasn t collected from the crime scene until three weeks after the murder. then, defense dna expert, very shift housed on the lapd s denis hahn. accusing him and a colleague of
so it was the perfect time for that defense to be raised. the perfect time for that defense to be raised. that this is a black man being persecuted. and he ought to be let go. but o.j. simpson? for years he lived on l.a. s mostly white west side. he spent much of his time playing golf, dating white women, and seemed to have little to do with l.a. s black community. i m not sure he knew how to get to south l.a. that s right. he didn t have to identify with the black community. but the black community understood that, you re being targeted, so you re back with us. cochran knew that and helping him were several other legal superstars like f. lee bailey, dna expert, barry sheck, and harvard law professor alan dershawitz. they were known as the dream team. but dershowitz had his own name for them. i called it a nightmare team. it was a terrible, terrible group. we didn t get along. didn t deserve the name the
there is a phrase called garbage in/garbage out. garbage in/garbage out. became the strategy. if there was evidence that was contaminated or corrupted, then the results and the conclusions could not be trusted. for example, a key blood sample that wasn t collected from the crime scene until three weeks after the murdered. then defense dna expert, barry scheck, pounced on the lapd, accusing him and a colleague of mishandling evidence. there. there. how about that? the defense came in and just whittled in, piece by piece, little by little. many people who watched the trial said that the jury was bored by the lengthy dna evidence. put yourself there. and you are sitting there. you are listening to this stuff over and over and over.
garbage in/garbage out. became the strategy. if there was evidence that was contaminated or corrupted then the results and the conclusions could not be trusted. for example, a key blood sample that wasn t collected from the crime scene until three weeks after the murdered. then defense dna expert, barry sheck pounced on the lapd accusing him and a colleague of mishandling evidence. there. there. how about that? the defense came in and just whittled in, piece by piece, little by little. many people who watched the trial said that the jury was bored by the lengthy dna evidence. put yourself there. and you are sitting there. you are listening to this stuff over and over and over. i am not going to lie to you. it wras somewhat boring. there was plenty of other