Originally Posted by dculkin

I hate the whole concept of the OJ trial, but I don't blame Johnnie Cochran. People criticized him for "playing the race card." For the life of me, I have no idea what those people would have had him do. Ignore the obvious racial element of the case? He was defending a man against a murder charge. He had a duty to use every ethical means at his disposal to bring the jury to his side. As far as I know, that is what he did.