there s harvard professor alan dershowitz. an intermediate between the ivory tower and the gritty world of trial practice. famed criminal attorney f. lee bailey. the person you go to when you are really in a lot of trouble and can afford it. and, of course, johnny cochran, who would take the lead. flamboyant, outgoing, approachable, fun, and extremely charismatic, while also having considerable mastery of the details of the case. and known for defending celebrities like child actor todd bridges, football legend jim brown, and superstar michael jackson. but would the all-star strategy work? the o.j. dream team was not a dream team. it was a nightmare team. most of the lawyers didn t get along with each other. there was a lot of competition
the ivory tower and the gritty world of trial practice. famed criminal attorney, f. lee bailey. the person you go to when you are really in a lot of trouble and can afford it. and, of course, johnny cochran, who would take the lead. flamboyant. outgoing. approachable. fun. and extremely charismatic, while also having considerable mastery of the details of the case. and known for defending celebrities like child actor todd bridges, football legend jim brown and superstar michael jackson. but would the all-star strategy work? the o.j. dream team was not a dream team. it was a nightmare team. most of the lawyers didn t get
an ideal intermediary between the ivory tower and the gritty world of trial practice. famed criminal attorney, f. lee bailey. the person you go to when you are really in a lot of trouble and can afford it. and, of course, johnnie cochran, who would take the lead. flamboyant. outgoing. approachable. fun. and extremely charismatic, while also having considerable mastery of the details of the case. and known for defending celebrities like child actor todd bridges, football legend jim brown and superstar michael jackson. but would the all-star strategy work? the o.j. dream team was not a dream team. it was a nightmare team. most of the lawyers didn t get along with each other. there was a lot of competition for the limelight.
and known for defending celebrities like child actor todd bridges, football legend jim brown and superstar michael jackson. but would the all-star strategy work? the o.j. dream team was not a dream team. it was a nightmare team. most of the lawyers didn t get along with each other. there was a lot of competition for the limelight. despite all that competition, simpson s team comes up with this. they allege that lapd detective mark fuhrman was a racist who planted evidence. this is not just any city where an allegation of the racist cop is being made. this is the lapd. the racist allegations simmering under the surface come to a boil. just days before the trial begins. when the defense wants permission to ask fuhrman if he s ever used the n word.
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