Black Cards: The People V. OJ Simpson, Ep. 4 Recap

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Now that the legal teams are set and a judge has been appointed to the trial, jury selection has begun and boy was it a process.
On last night’s (Feb. 23) episode of The People V. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, the jury data reveals some harsh opinions that the prosecution was not ready for and some interesting details that delighted the defense.

Also while the prosecution team continues to form a strong bond on their quest for justice, the Dream Team started to show some cracks as the two alphas that are Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran began to clash like the titans of Greek mythology.

Hit the flip to relive the scandals of yesteryear and learn some inner-workings you weren’t aware of from the latest episode of The People V. OJ Simpson.

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Right off the bat Shapiro and Cochran got off on the wrong foot as Shapiro referred to Black people as “these people” and Johnnie had to remind Robert to watch his vocabulary when speaking on race related subjects.

During jury selection, Johnnie Cochran wasn’t too keen on having too many Black female jurors fearing that Black women resented successful Black men who married white women. That little nugget has withstood the test of time.

Judge Lance Ito was as excited as a kid on Christmas after being assigned to the Simpson trial.

Lee Bailey didn’t know he was working pro bono until he was informed so by Shapiro after he asked who to bill for his services.

Nicole Brown Simpson’s best friend Faye Resnick cashed in on her friend’s death by making a “non-exploitive” book about her life in which she painted Nicole as a borderline nymphomaniac with a cocaine habit. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Ron Goldman’s father was broken up about his son being a “footnote in his own murder.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong.

Marcia Clark wanted as many Black female jurors as possible feeling that she would resonate with them. She didn’t. According to jury data her likability on a scale of 1 to 10 was a lowly 4, while Johnnie Cochran hauled in an 8.

F. Lee Bailey put the battery in Johnnie’s back to take the lead on the case warning him that Shapiro was more equipped to cut a deal than to see a trial through. Man, Robert Shapiro should’ve just paid the man instead of pulling out the pro bono card.

While Shapiro denied that he was playing the race card in the courtroom, Cochran – much to the dismay of Shapiro – owned it and explained why such was the case. This led to another bumping of the heads.

As F. Lee Bailey predicted, Shapiro tried to take the “p*ssy” way out and brought the idea of cutting a deal to the table. OJ and the team were not pleased to say the least.

Witnessing Shapiro’s cowardice caused Robert Kardashian to convince his best buddy OJ that Johnnie Cochran should be the lead attorney.

OJ tried his best to politely let Shapiro know he was getting demoted by referring to him as the quarterback to Cochran’s running back on a team with a ground and pound game plan. It was still painful in the end.

The defense team looked like they saw a ghost when they saw Christopher Darden on the prosecution team prompting OJ to ask, “When did they get a Black guy?”