March 29, 2005
If It Doesn’t Fit, You Must Acquit
Johnnie Cochran Dead at 67 of a brain tumor.
Johnnie Cochran, arguably America’s most famous criminal lawyer, died Tuesday. The attorney, best known for defending O.J. Simpson against double-murder charges in the 1990s, was 67.
OJ said, “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.”
In his 2002 book, “A Lawyer’s Life,” Cochran wrote that the case “gave me the platform to try to change some of those things that need to be changed in this country.”
“It was the Simpson case that put me squarely in a position to make a difference. And that was precisely the reason I became an attorney,” he wrote.
Cochran’s flamboyancy inspired parodies — among them the Jackie Chiles character on “Seinfeld,” who unsuccessfully defended the show’s gang in the series finale, and sketches on “Saturday Night Live.”
“At times, it was a lot of fun,” Cochran wrote of the “Seinfeld” spoof. “And I knew that accepting it good-naturedly, even participating in it, helped soothe some of the angry feelings from the Simpson case.”
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