i told them i didn t think o.j. would go for that. back to o.j. after that meeting and told him and he said no how no way. this is a key, key issue right now whether or not there was legal malpractice, whether or not galanter informed o.j. of any plea deal. sure. it s very important, wolf. why is it important? because when you are establishing ineffective assistance of counsel you re really looking at two things. one the deficiency of the attorney s performance and number two that prejudiced the outcome meaning because of that deficiency it affected the result. you got convicted. so, clearly, in the event o.j. was informed of the plea deal if there was one and he said no, then certainly that s outcome determine nah tiff. that is a critical issue and again a question of fact. did he, was he offered a plea deal and did yale galanter inform him of that? certainly as an attorney you have an obligation to do that so the judge is going to assess who is credible, who is not, who should i
he blames for the 33 years he is currently serving in prison. could his former attorney end up derailing o.j. simpson s fight for freedom? plus, a cnn money exclusive. bernard madoff speaking out from prison about the notorious ponzi scheme that cost thousands of people billions of dollars. you ll hear what he says haunts him the most. and a brazen jewelry heist at one of hollywood s biggest events. details on the potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in diamonds stolen during the famed cannes film festival. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. another dramatic day in court for o.j. simpson who came face to face with the man he blames for the 33 years he s now serving in prison on robbery and kidnapping convictions. his ex-attorney yale galanter but galanter told the court just the opposite today arguing it
over the years with o.j. simpson. brian todd is here with a closer look why he s got this part of the story for us. he has been around for a long time. he has, wolf. captivate is a good word. o.j. simpson has captivated america for better or for worse for about four decades now. that s why this past wednesday when we had breaking news on the white house e-mails on benghazi, the president s statement on the irs and a crucial moment in the jodi arias trial, we still found time to tell you about o.j. simpson s court appearance. we were riveted to the screen talking about how he grabbed his memorabilia from dealers in las vegas the first time we had heard him speak publicly in years. that is what i told everybody involved, that if they don t give it to me i m going to get the police in there. why would we take such an interest in a puffy, shackled, 65-year-old o.j. simpson? michael o keefe of the new york daily news says it is the o.j. simpson story that pulls us in. we re drawn to
and people who rich against poor. no one didn t have an opinion about whether or not o.j. was guilty. you either thought he was guilty or you thought he was the victim of racist police and incompetent prosecution. o keefe says it was also one of those water shed cultural moments when america was shaken out of its habit of fawning over celebrities. after the simpson murder trial, we were never quite as shocked again when we found out that our idols, people like michael jackson and lance armstrong weren t quite what we thought. fascination i sense with o.j. simpson is still multi generational. it is. the younger people remember the murder trial and all the sensation around that. when we were watching tv every day watching that trial. people of your generation, my generation remember him playing football. we remember his movies, the ads. he really is transcendent in that way. when you talk to very young people, you try to compare him to somebody now like i don t know, maybe lady g
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