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Superstar Lawyer Johnnie Cochran Dies


Mar 29, 6:35 PM (ET)

By GREG RISLING

(AP) Attorney Johnny Cochran arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court in a New York file photo from Jan. 29,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," died Tuesday. He was 67.

Cochran died of a brain disorder in Los Angeles, said law partner Randy McMurray.

"Certainly, Johnnie's career will be noted as one marked by celebrity cases and clientele," his family said in a statement. "But he and his family were most proud of the work he did on behalf of those in the community."

With his colorful suits and ties, his gift for courtroom oratory and a knack for coining memorable phrases, Cochran was a vivid addition to the pantheon of great American barristers.

The "if it doesn't fit" phrase would be quoted and parodied for years afterward. It derived from a dramatic moment during which Simpson tried on a pair of bloodstained "murder gloves" to show jurors they did not fit. Some legal experts called it the turning point in the trial.

Soon after, jurors found the Hall of Fame football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

For Cochran, Simpson's acquittal was the crowning achievement in a career notable for victories, often in cases with racial themes. He was a black man known for championing the causes of black defendants. Some of them, like Simpson, were famous, but more often than not they were unknowns.

"The clients I've cared about the most are the No Js, the ones who nobody knows," said Cochran, who proudly displayed copies in his office of the multimillion-dollar checks he won for ordinary citizens who said they were abused by police.

"People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner," he once said.

By the time Simpson called, the byword in the black community for defendants facing serious charges was: "Get Johnnie."

He's saving a seat in Hell for OJ...

Brain tumor?
Thats explains a lot.

Life is Precious...and God...and the Bible.

So, I didn't know him..i hate a celebrity died let's feel happy/sad threads...

Who cares?..I care if someone I know dies..blehhh..

I personally think its a good thing he died. He made a career out of spreading racism and defending the guilty.

Is it too much to ask that this happens to jesse jackson next?

You know, you people can really be fucking insensitive! A man is dead, for God's sake, and you all decide to mock him! He wasn't just a corrupt, racially and monetarily motivated "scumbag" of a lawyer who was able to dupe a racially motivated jury into freeing a guilty wife murderer! He was the innovator of the "Chewbacca Defense"!!! Remember that before you slag the late Johnnie Cochrane...























...who I hope is sucking cocks as he roasts in the bowels of Hell.

For total smoothness I'd give that line an 8 outta ten ;P

Perfect score woulda said, "I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you."

What if a guy said that to you on the phone? Say he's at his house and you're in your house, and you two will see each other that weekend? Is it still a perfect score, or is it just a little melodramatic in that instance?

Back on topic, Johnnie Cochran stinks.

Nah, that's only after i gets ta know ya better..

JM say it..it'll score ya brownie points with the girl

Whatever Pigsy ;p Know "ya better" and how many months have we been chatting at the boards together....se la vive.

Has it been months? it seems like a week..maybe our time together will always lead to such timeless feelings of yesterday...and isn't that the true measure of a person? How they make you feel like you've known them forever and yet it seems like just yesterday.....that you fell....


now back to topic or G-man will delete us....

Awwwww that was so sweet! See, I SO knew that literature majors could be romantic and poetic at the same time!

Um......yeah I don't really know what to feel about Johnnie dying. I just still can't believe O.J. walked, he was so guilty circumstantial evidence alone. If the investigation would not have been handled so sloppily OJ woulda gotten convicted. I'll always remember, "if the gloves didn't fit, then please acquit" part though. Gosh this thread brings back history memories from high school ;p

Ummm, I was talking about when i fell to the Sith....like J Cochran..he is a Sith......There aren't any black Sith unless you count the voice of James Earl Jones...humm???? That's interesting...

Is J Cochran a Sith????

In the words of the immortal poet, "I must be wishing on someone else's star because someone else always gets what I wished for :P"

No, I was trying to get back on topic so my post would be immortalized forever without getting deleted..

You've never heard of the Wookie defense...???

Cut me some slack. It's been a while.

I was in sixth and seventh grade during the OJ trail, fer Pete's sake.

I'll explain..

Chef hears a song that Cartman can't get out his head and Chef
says that he wrote that song over twenty years ago. When Chef and the
boys visit the record company, the record company says they are going
to sue him. Capitalist Records hires Johnny Cochran, who uses the
Chewbacca defense, the same defense that he used in the Simpson trial.


"Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on
the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense. Why
would a wookie, an 8 foot tall wookie, want to live on Endor with a
bunch of two foot tall ewoks? That does not make sense! But more
importantly, you have to ask yourself, what does that have to do with
this case?' Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with
this case. It does not make sense!"

Ja Ja...

Thanks, Pig Iron.

Ja Ja........

Thus, the signs that the guys on the board either need sleep or to lay off the alcohol ;p

Or you need to speak German.....

As I was sober last night and wide awake (I get 8 - 10 hrs of sleep regularly), I'd guess that maybe the joke just went over Elisa's head.

I like when the jurors head explodes during the wookie defense.

that was me before back surgery where 1-2 hours was a good night for me......now I'm back to 8-9 hours THANK GOD!

thank you, wednesday.