http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/coc...bit/index.html

I am not happy that Cockran died but I cannot pay any respect to a man who used the most basic of race warfare to free a murderer. I realize that the idiot jury was no help, but that does not excuse what Cockran did.


This is a short excerpt:
Simpson told CNN: "I loved him as a good Christian man. I look at Johnny as a great Christian. I knew him as that. He was a great guy."
Simpson said he last saw Cochran at an L.A. Lakers basketball game a few months ago and found the flamboyant lawyer to be in good spirits. "We were praying for him then, and I still am," Simpson said.
Simpson added that he knew Cochran long before he hired the African-American lawyer to lead his 'Dream Team' defense. "I was in social circles with Johnnie and we knew each other in that way," he said.

two things. The law requires OJ be defended adequately and Cochran had plenty of non-OJ cases where real justice was done. On the OJ case, his job to win acquittal and he did. Although OJ is indeed a stone cold killer, Cochran did the job he was paid to do.

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right out of my mouth, STEKIM!!!

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I think the majority of people's ire should be directed at the incompetence of the LAPD and the LA District Attorney's office....and not the man that actually DID the job he was paid for....unlike Darden and Marcia Clark....

stekim wrote I realize that our laws reqire that even the lowest form of criminal filth is defended. What my objection is, is that Cockran used the "race card" to get OJ free and he knew that OJ was as you say a " stone cold killer".

If OJ was white he would have been convicted in the criminal case.

What truly disgusted me with the entire OJ case was that Blacks knew that OJ was guilty but they somehow wanted him "freed " to make up for all the wrongfull things that juries and police did to them in the past.

The two wrongs do not make a right. Blacks used the OJ case for short term gains and feel goodism, but they lost the respect and sympathy that those of us who had supported equal rights for all. In order to be truly equal you need to act like an equal and accept the consequences of members of ytour own race doing bad things. If you cheer because OJ a black man got away with killing because he killed a white woman you are not ready for equality or to claim that you are a civliized race of people. You are no better than a pack of Mississippi KKK scum.

..What a *^*^&**&**!!

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Why be mad at Cochran? The prosecution blew it. He won. He was paid to win. Kudos.

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bottom line: America loves a winner... and barring the Simpson case, Cochran was a great litigator. People should respect him for being able to defend an assured murderer successfully. OJ is theone who will have to pay for his actions... Johnny should be praised for his... he was one of the better lawyers in our time.

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I blame the stupid jurors who apparently don't know their backside from a hole in the ground. Unless he knowingly lied then he did nothing wrong. The LAPD (and even moreso the prosecutors) screwed up, but with that said there was a myriad of evidence pointing to his guilt and the jurors were willingly stupid to be steered in that direction.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

Once again, I have to say Rebellion hits the nail on the head, IMO.

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