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The episode, which premiered on October 7, 1998, satirizes the O. J. Simpson murder trial, particularly attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument for the defense. In the episode, a fictionalized version of Cochran bases his argument on a false premise about the 1983 film Return of the Jedi.
He was part of O. J. Simpson's defense team during his trial, dubbed the "Dream Team." [2] Uelmen says he devised the memorable line used by Johnnie Cochran in the closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." [3] Uelmen is currently a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served as dean from 1986 to 1994. [4]
During closing arguments in the Simpson trial, Cochran uttered the now famous phrase, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." He used the phrase, which had been devised by fellow defense team member Gerald Uelmen, [24] as a way to persuade the jury that Simpson could not have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson nor Ron Goldman. In a dramatic scene ...
One year to the day after jury selection began, closing arguments in Simpson’s murder trial got underway on September 26, 1995. The prosecution spent a large amount of time focused on police ...
[97] [98] The New York Times reported that "Mr. Simpson's "dream team" has fostered public mistrust of defense lawyers in general because of their 'shotgun approach' of attempting to shoot down every scrap of evidence against Mr. Simpson with a barrage of alternative (i.e., conspiracy) explanations" [99] and in 2014, Scheck acknowledged that ...
Robert Blasier, an El Dorado County attorney who helped mount the criminal defense in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial and lived with his client for a year during the civil suit against him, said on ...
The line Ms Navarro was spinning came from OJ Simpson’s murder trial in the 1990s, in which his defense team said that if the evidence didn’t fit the prosecution’s case then the jury “must ...
Gerald Uelmen was part of O. J. Simpson's defense team during the O. J. Simpson murder case. Uelmen says he devised the memorable line used by Johnnie Cochran in the closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Uelmen is currently a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1986 to 1994. He ...