O.J. Simpson’s Defense Attorney Says Playing Race Card Wasn’t Dirty Move

O.J. Simpson‘s acquittal in his 1994 homicide trial stays some of the controversial verdicts thus far, however a member of his protection — the so-called Dream Crew — stands by the methods they used to get him off.

Maybe essentially the most controversial of their methods was taking part in the “race card” in the course of the trial … a choice lawyer Carl Douglas defends, claiming each side knew race would play an element within the case.

He tells TMZ … “The prosecution played the race card as well when they brought on a Black prosecutor (Christopher Darden) for the first time when the jury was all assembled on the first day of trial.”

For these unfamiliar, O.J.’s trial for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman got here within the aftermath of the Rodney King beating, by the hands of LAPD officers — so, L.A. was already a powder keg when it got here to race relations and police.

Many criticized Simpson’s authorized crew for leaning into the mistrust between the Black neighborhood and cops, saying the attorneys solely did so to safe a not-guilty verdict for his or her A-list shopper.

The actual fact is, it labored, however Douglas fires again on the notion they had been “playing the race card” … and as a substitute says they merely offered the proof as that they had it.

Bear in mind, LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who investigated the murders, found the notorious bloody glove on the homicide scene.

O.J.’s authorized crew referred to as out Fuhrman’s credibility by resurfacing tapes of the detective making racist feedback — and urged he might need planted the proof.

Douglas advised us, “When you are presented with facts suggesting that a primary detective in the case had a racial animus against Black and Brown suspects, and Black and Brown prisoners, so strongly that he wanted to separate from the police department because he couldn’t control his anger … that had to be an issue that we had to follow and seek to exploit if, in fact, it was true.”

His backside line is obvious … the protection crew did nothing completely different than the prosecutors — merely utilizing proof to try to win the case.