Attorneys Gloria Allred, Brian Dunn on O.J. Simpson Trial’s Legacy

Two of the attorneys related to O.J. Simpson‘s notorious felony trial are reflecting on the case’s lasting influence on the justice system, and society at massive … and so they view key points from the trial very otherwise.

Gloria Allred, famed legal professional and girls’s rights advocate, joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live” to share her recollections of representing Nicole Brown Simpson‘s household.

Allred recalled the second Simpson was acquitted — she was in courtroom, sitting subsequent to Nicole’s father and her sister Denise — and regardless of the decision, she says she was assured he had killed Nicole and Ron Goldman.

She was fast to level out the jury in his wrongful loss of life civil trial agreed when, in 1997, they discovered him chargeable for the deaths.

Allred does admit there have been invaluable classes that got here out of Simpson’s felony trial … together with encouraging girls’s rights teams to carry males accountable, in the event that they commit violent acts towards girls.

And, though Simpson’s protection crew, efficiently painted O.J. because the sufferer of racist cops throughout a number of months of testimony … Allred says the case was actually about gender violence.

However, Brian Dunn — at the moment managing director of The Cochran Agency in L.A. — labored carefully with Johnnie Cochran again then, and says the trial’s central tenet was race relations … including, the case introduced consideration to some big elephants within the room.

Dunn says the trial continues to be talked about a lot due to that racial factor — with questions of racial injustice making it unattainable for the general public to easily let it go.

Certainly, nearly instantly after information broke about Simpson’s loss of life, social media reactions mirrored made it clear individuals are nonetheless divided on his guilt or innocence … regardless of the mountains of proof — DNA and in any other case — introduced throughout his felony trial.

BD additionally talked about Cochran’s legacy … whereas talking from Johnnie’s workplace no much less. JC handed away in 2005, however we’re instructed the agency saved the workplace completely the identical within the years following his loss of life.