hollywood negro. had a blond wife. lived in brentwood. oj with a gun pointed at his own head. if the person had murdered two white people was a street thug, it would have been no big case but it was an icon. you don t want to believe this kind of a person would have done this. how do you plead to counts one and two? absolutely not guilty. legal analysts say his demeanor was assembled by his legal team including johnny cochran. he had spent decades exposing police misconduct in the treatment of african americans. the eyes of the world are focused here in los angeles. where the much anticipated murder trial of oj simpson is
this calm, patient, sturdy, steady person was emotional. falling apart? and angry and he was a menace. saw him at the food banks. i saw him with girlfriends that he had to pay for. i saw his demeanor change from a proud working man to a street thug. denis was in a downward spiral. desperate for money, he turned to small-time crime, tried a bit of drug dealing. got caught. he was lucky, it was his first offense. so he only got probation. they told me he did this drug deal because he needed the money to keep her home, wendy s home. he said, if i keep the house, he says, she ll have a home to come home to. denis lost the house. six years after wendy disappeared, he was living in an apartment in the seediest part of town, collecting bottles to make ends meet.