shakran

Because he was doing his job. A defense attorney's job is to convince the jury that his client is innocent. He's not allowed to say "gee I think the guy is guilty so I think I'll just slack off on this case." Not only would that guarantee he wouldn't get many clients, it would also get him disbarred.

Too many people have blamed OJ's defense lawyers for OJ being found not guilty. The blame actually lies with the prosecutors. They had the greatest, most air tight case probably in history. They had evidence up the yin yang, a defendant who was obviously concocting bizarre alibis ("yeah, i was golfing in the middle of the night in my yard when they were killed. No I don't know how their blood got on my Bronco") and yet they still managed to lose.

First they kept the jury there for farking ever, going over and over testimony. It got to the point where it was obvious they were just having a great time being lawyers and they forgot about the fact that the first rule of a jury trial is to not get the jury to hate you. Well if someone keeps me locked up in a hot courtroom away from my home, family, and job for months on end, you can book it I'm not gonna be real happy with them.

Then they pulled the ultimate idiot move- having OJ try on the glove. You never. EVER. stage a demonstration in court unless you know 100% how it will turn out. Especially if the demonstration is allowed to be manipulated by the other side (they let OJ wear surgical gloves under the leather gloves to "protect his hands" and incidentally prevent the leather gloves from fitting.) They broke that cardinal rule, and they got burned bigtime for it.

So you can see that it's not Cochran's fault that OJ got off. hell Cochran frankly didn't have much to do with it. He just capitalized on the idiotic mistakes made by the prosecution. Frankly after the prosecution's pathetic showing, Cochran would have been a total fool if he COULDN'T have introduced reasonable doubt.