Bob Costas on what Johnnie Cochran told him privately after the OJ Simpson trial

[Kennah]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/15/the-lead-bob-costas-oj-simpson-johnnie-cochran-jake-tapper.cnn

Costas is crazy smart

[niyad]

1. an ad for flooring? gee, thanks. no actual video, just the ad.

It would be really helpful if you orovuded a synopsis, at least.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Just say what he said

Fuck's sake.

[claudette]

3. That would

Have been nice. I never click open links posted at any forum.

[Nittersing]

4. The link didn't go to an article. Just the headline. lol nt

[claudette]

8. Oh

That’s odd. I caught an online virus ONCE and now I’m wary of clicking a link on ANY forum. I’m not saying anyone here would do that deliberately but I have no way of knowing for sure what’s on the other side of a link.

[underpants]

7. Costas asked him why the prosecution didn't close with

If the LAPD frame him why him? They’d have to know he didn’t have an air tight alibi. The LAPD would have had to put together all the evidence instantly which is almost impossible.

Cochrane said he wondered the same thing.

[usonian]

5. I got an ad for Charmin.

What does YouTube know?

Nothing. I just bought 12 rolls of Safeway house brand T.P.

[Mike Nelson]

6. I remember the trial...

... it did teach me that the job of the defense lawyer is to "get away with murder," so to speak. There was no "search for the truth," as Cochran said, very often. I'm sure the many prosecutor's job is to get a guilty verdict, also, whether the person committed the crime, or not.