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/
socks in his bedroom. you describe that material or that bloodstaining as matching nicole brown; is that right? that s correct. then there were the bloody shoe prints in the bronco and on nicole s dress. fbi expert william says those prints came from designer shoes in simpson s size 12. can you include him as a candidate who could have worn the shoes that created the impressions in this case? yes. i could include him as a candidate for possibly having worn those shoes. as the trial wears on, attention turns from socks and shoes to gloves. one found at the murder scene. the other behind simpson s house. together prosecutors believe they have proof that simpson s caught red-handed.
about f. lee bailey, everybody in the world knew he was being set up but him. what i didn t know was we also had him on tape. four months after bailey versus fuhrman, the defense gets an unlikely tip. screen writer laura heart mckinny had interviewed mark fuhrman for a fictional script and still had the recordings. despite a court order, some of the startling contents are leaked. he is just a real racist scum. now we re going to look at fuhrman and what a scum bag he is. and to don goldman s father, fred, the tapes are a devastating distraction. this is not now the fuhrman trial. this is a trial about the man
demonstration where you don t know where the outcome is. and it was like a slow motion disaster movie for the prosecution as o.j. milked the moment for all it was worth and pretended to try on those gloves. after the trial, christopher darden would admit to larry king it was a mistake. when it happened in court, did you know you were in trouble? i knew that it hadn t gone as well as i hoped it would as it should have gone. did you consider it earth shattering to the case? no, not necessarily. not particularly. it wasn t until i went upstairs and left the courtroom that i realized people thought it was a monument taal failure. was it chris darden that blew this case. marsha clark contributed. but chris darden blew it.
it will upset the black jurors. it will give them a test and the test will be whose side are you on, the side of the white prosecutors and the white policeman or the black defendant and his very prominent and capable black lawyer. cochran immediately fires back. not every african-american feels that way. it is the meaning to our juries to say that african-americans cannot hear these offensive words. the battle lines are drawn. and race will help define the trial s outcome. it s january 24th, 1995. the trial of o.j. simpson has begun. there was a forest of satellite trucks, satellite dishes, people working in trailers all built so that this trial could go out to the world.