Cochran Croaks

Famous black attorney Johnnie Cochran has died at his home in LA at the age of 67, victim of an inoperable brain tumor. The pinnacle of Cochran’s career was the use of an absolutely scandalous racist tactic to free double murderer O.J. Simpson from criminal charges brought by the LA District Attorney. Simpson was later found guilty in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million to survivors of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her beau, Ron Goldman.

Cochran managed to convince a largely ignorant black jury that the LAPD had framed Simpson in an attempt to blame a black man for a crime they couldn’t solve. Preferring to believe the idea of a police conspiracy against Simpson, the jury acquitted the former Heismann Trophy running back of criminal murder charges in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend. After the jury announced its verdict Simpson promised to find the actual killer or killers of the duo.

Cochran was diagnosed with the brain tumor in 2003. He now knows for certain who murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The rest of us knew years ago. He probably did, too, but victory was more important to him than justice, especially victory over the EVIL Los Angeles Police Department.

Bye, bye, Johnnie. One day your name will be synonymous for the miscarriage of justice. Meanwhile, may you be condemned to a special kind of Hell in which you get to watch OJ murder Nicole and Ron, up close and personal, time after time, repeatedly, for eternity.