American Crime Story (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 10 - The Verdict - full transcript
Closing statements are given and the jury must decide the verdict. Effects of the verdict are highlighted for both sides, as well as the community.
Today is the day.
How do I look?
Like a star.
Now, we don't know
what Ito's gonna allow,
but we know that
Marcia's gonna go crazy.
So if you get a chance to start talking,
don't you stop.
Let's go.
Mr. Cochran,
it is my understanding
that you have discussed with your client
his right to testify.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Simpson is waiving his right.
But if the court pleases,
he would like to make
a brief statement regarding the waiver.
Your Honor, the People
object to the defendant
making any statement other
than the waiver at this time.
Counsel, he's not before the jury.
Yes, but we are all aware of
the realities of this case,
the problem with conjugal
visits and telephone calls
that are only monitored on one side.
This is an obvious
attempt by the defense
to get material to the jury
that has not been admitted in court.
It is inappropriate and deliberate.
I strongly urge the
court to exercise control
and not permit testimony
without cross-examination.
Please, Your Honor, don't do this.
My goodness.
There's a great deal of fear
of the truth in this case.
Your Honor, this is still America.
Can we still talk?
All right, go ahead,
Mr. Simpson, briefly.
Good morning, Your Honor.
As much as I'd like to address
some of the misrepresentations
made about myself and my Nicole,
concerning our life together,
I am mindful of the mood and
the stamina of this jury.
I am confident... a lot more,
it seems, than Miss Clark...
About their integrity,
and that they will
find, as it now stands,
that I did not
and could not and would
not commit this crime.
I have four kids.
Two kids I haven't seen in a year.
And every week,
they ask me, "Dad, when
are you coming home?
How much longer?"
- All right...
- Just want this trial to be over.
- All right, thank you, Mr. Simpson.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
You want to address misrepresentations
about you and Nicole, take
a seat in the blue chair,
and we can have a discussion.
Mr. Cochran,
does the defense plan on
calling any further witnesses?
No, Your Honor.
The defense rests.
We have ten jurors.
We have nine.
We have ten.
And then there's that freaking demon.
She hates me.
I've gotten that look
from all my ex-wives.
Jesus, you and that demon.
What did she ever do to you?
- Shawn.
- Mm?
What's up?
Johnnie just got another death threat.
Death threat?
How many has he gotten?
- It's up to 20 now.
- What?!
It's scary.
Johnnie needs protection.
I'm gonna insist he hire someone.
Come on.
"If the glove's too small...
easy call."
No.
"If the gloves...
don't fit... "
Today, the trial of the century
reaches a crescendo
as closing statements begin.
Vegas oddsmakers are
offering six-to-five
in favor of conviction.
Marcia.
Yeah.
Please, nail this.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, we
are coming close to the end,
I promise.
And I want you all to know
how much I appreciate
what you're doing here...
For justice...
And to thank you all from
the bottom of my heart
for the incredible
sacrifices that you've made.
Thank you.
I would like to begin
by first addressing the
issue of Mark Fuhrman.
Just to be clear, is he a racist?
Yes.
Is he the worst LAPD has to offer?
Yes.
Should LAPD ever have hired him?
No.
Should such a person
be a police officer?
No.
In fact, do we wish there were
no such person on the planet?
Yes.
But the fact that Mark
Fuhrman is a racist
and lied about it on the witness stand
does not mean that we haven't
proven that the defendant
is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
And it would be a tragedy
if O.J. Simpson were found not guilty
because of the racist attitudes
of one police officer.
There is an ocean of evidence
that has been unchallenged
by the defense.
In an attempt to distract you from it,
they took you through a twisted road.
One moment saying the
police are bumbling idiots,
the next moment saying the
police are cunning conspirators.
They threw out alternate theories,
hoping one would stick.
But instead of focusing
on those distractions,
I ask you to consider the evidence
the defense did not, and cannot, refute.
The shoe prints at Bundy were
from a size-12 Bruno Magli shoe.
The defendant wears a size-12.
Hair from the defendant was
on the knit cap at Bundy.
Hair from the defendant
was on Ron Goldman's shirt.
The glove found at
Rockingham contains fibers
that match Ron's hair.
The glove contains fibers
that match Nicole's hair.
It has Nicole's blood.
It has Ron's blood.
It has the defendant's blood.
The gloves are extra-large,
the defendant's size.
Here are photos of the defendant
wearing the Aris gloves
at numerous football games.
When limo driver Allan Park arrived,
there was no Bronco out front.
When he left with the defendant,
there was now a Bronco parked outside.
A drop of blood in the Bundy driveway
matches the defendant at a rate
of one-in-170-million.
Nicole's blood was on
the defendant's sock.
This was a match at the
rate of one-in-6.8-billion.
The blood on the rear gate at
Bundy matches the defendant
at rate of one-in-57-billion.
There are only five billion
people on the planet.
That, ladies and gentlemen,
is an identification.
When the defendant was
informed of his wife's death,
he did not ask how she died.
Think about that.
He did not ask how she died.
And then ask yourself,
"Why?"
Ladies and gentlemen,
to grasp this crime,
you must first understand
Mr. Simpson's relationship
to his ex-wife, Nicole.
It was a ticking time bomb.
The fuse was lit in 1985,
the very year they were married.
Officers responded after
Mr. Simpson beat Nicole
and took a baseball bat to her Mercedes.
Then in 1989, Nicole
had to call 911 again,
fearing for her life.
When officers arrived,
Nicole ran towards them, yelling,
"He's going to kill me.
He's going to kill me."
She had a black eye,
a cut forehead, a swollen cheek.
In her torn bra,
Nicole pleaded with the officers,
"You've come up here eight times.
You never do anything about him."
And they want to tell you
that the police conspired
against Mr. Simpson.
This case
is not about the "N" word.
It is about O.J. Simpson
and the "M" word, "murder."
I'm not afraid to point
to him and say he did it.
Why not?
The evidence all points to him.
In February 1992, Nicole
filed for divorce.
She was running away from the
man who said he'd kill her.
She saw the explosion coming.
Why else fill a safe-deposit box
with threatening letters
from the defendant,
a will and police
photos of past beatings?
She knew that the bomb
could go off at any second.
And then it did.
On June 12, 1994,
while their daughter danced,
the defendant kept his
eyes fixed on Nicole.
Spurned.
Now imagine this
defendant in the Bronco.
He is full of anger,
and he is full of rage,
and it is nighttime, and he is driving,
and the focus of his anger is Nicole.
It is 10:00, and he's
driving as fast as he can.
He is out of control, folks.
The fact that the kids are in the house
means nothing to this man.
Simpson has lost Nicole,
and he is upset and angry.
The fuse is getting shorter.
The anger is building.
The rage he has, the anger, the hate,
flows out of him and into the knife
and from the knife into her.
With each thrust of the
knife into her body,
there's a release,
a small release.
And he stabs and cuts and slices
until that rage is gone.
Until Nicole and Ron are gone.
He's a murderer.
He was also one hell of
a great football player.
But he's still a murderer.
At the outset...
let me say
that not one bit of domestic
violence is tolerable.
O.J. Simpson
is not proud of some of the things
that happened during his marriage.
Does that add up to murder?
No.
Mr. Darden talked about 1985,
but he missed the whole point.
Something interesting happened
in 1985.
Mark Fuhrman
responded to a call on Rockingham.
He saw a white woman
married to a powerful black man.
He didn't like that.
He didn't like that.
'Cause he's a hardened racist.
Mark Fuhrman is the one who said,
"If I see an interracial couple,
"I'm gonna stop them.
"If I don't have a reason,
I'm gonna make something up."
So you have a lying Mark Fuhrman,
the personification of evil,
who found the gloves.
But don't be fooled.
This isn't just one officer.
Mark Fuhrman represents
the entire...
LAPD.
Now, you may not know this,
but you are... empowered.
Your decision has a major implication
both in this courtroom
and outside of it.
Things happen for a reason in life.
Maybe that's why we're
gathered together.
Something in your background,
your character, helps you to know
that this is wrong.
Maybe you're the right
people at the right time
to be able to say, "No more."
We can't have this."
What they have done
is disgraceful.
O.J. Simpson
is entitled to an acquittal.
They have entrusted
this case to a man who says
he'd like to see all niggers
gathered together and killed.
That is genocide.
That man speaks
like Adolf Hitler.
Now, since you can't trust the man
and you don't trust the People,
is it any wonder,
in the defining moment in this trial,
when they asked
O.J. Simpson to try on the glove
and the glove didn't fit.
It didn't fit because it wasn't his.
If you don't stop this
cover-up, who will?
Send them a message.
Let them know
that your verdict will travel
far outside these walls.
Ladies and gentlemen,
remember these words:
if it doesn't fit,
you must acquit.
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
If it doesn't fit...
you must acquit.
Well, that's it. There's
nothing else we can do.
How long do you think they'll take?
On this trial, nothing's gone fast.
Could be forever.
Somebody hold the elevator, please?
Well, I'm getting the hell out.
Taking my kids to Santa Barbara
for some real family time.
Call me if anything happens.
And what if nothing happens?
Then call me in a month to say "hi."
Well, I've got a speech in Laguna Beach.
A snack food convention.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
I'm flying back to New York.
Vacation talk? Whew. I need one.
Heading to the airport.
I got a speech in San Francisco.
You know what I would do,
if I had the spare time?
I would go up to Oscar De
La Hoya's training camp
and I would spend my day sparring
and-and hitting the heavy bag.
Bob, airport.
Okay.
I've never been a foreperson before.
I've never even been on a jury before,
so if any of you have suggestions,
I'm open to hearing them.
Why not take a vote? Already?
I mean, just to get a sense of the room.
Like a straw poll.
Yeah. That's good.
Um, but the instructions say
that the voting should
be done in secret,
so nobody feels uncomfortable.
So, uh, why don't we
just do paper ballots?
Just write "guilty" or "not guilty."
Okay.
Do I have everybody?
All right.
Here we go.
Anise, would you tally for us?
Sure.
Okay.
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Guilty."
"Not guilty."
And...
"not guilty."
So the tally is...
We can all do the math.
Okay, I'll just say it.
I voted guilty.
I mean,
look at all the evidence.
There is just so much.
And what about all the facts
that the defense didn't
even bother to address?
I mean, just that alone...
Why wasn't there more
blood in the Bronco?
There was so much blood at the scene.
I'd make more of a mess in my
car if I spilt a milkshake.
Goldman had injuries on his hands,
like he was defending himself.
Why didn't O.J. have any marks on him?
What about the cut on his hand?
The gloves did not fit.
Oh, now, they did kind of fit.
Looked to me like O.J. was just
trying to not make 'em fit.
Why were they not inside out?
That's how they would be
if he take 'em off. Mm-hmm.
Shouldn't there have been more blood
around the glove they
found at O.J.'s house?
And wouldn't there be blood
on the leaves?
You can just ask Mark
Fuhrman about that.
There's too many mess-ups.
Too much strange stuff
going on in the thing.
You will never convince me
that he did it without a doubt.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Whatever.
All right, all right. Look.
You might think he did it.
Hell, I might think he did it.
But can we honestly sit here
and say they proved it?
I will never,
ever think they proved it.
Never.
Never, ever.
Yes?
Are you shitting me?
They have a verdict.
You need to get down to court.
How can they have a verdict?
They can't.
It's impossible.
Oh, come on. You're kidding!
You're joking!
It's been half a day!
Four hours.
Four hours!
It's only good.
There's no way a jury
convicts on a double homicide
after four hours of debate.
Not even four.
To fill out the forms for
"guilty" takes an hour.
Then, they had a lunch break.
My God, they've discussed this case
less than anybody in America.
What are these people doing here?
Bob, you know
I've been receiving death threats.
I don't take my safety
lightly, especially not today.
You couldn't do this without
the help of Louis Farrakhan?
Robert, did you know about this?
Not until I got here, no.
Do you know what this looks like?
These are the same people that think
that some Jews are the devil and that...
and that my people have
no claim to Israel!
I had nothing to do with it, Bob.
I don't speak for Louis Farrakhan,
but I trust him
with my personal security and yours.
How could you? You-you know
appearance better than anyone.
How could you, on the
day of the verdict...
This verdict... you arrive
with strident black extremists.
Jesus, Bob! It's a secure
way to get in and out
of what could explode into hell.
Just get in the van or I'll
tell them you're Jewish.
Oh, bullshit. This is
bullsh... Step back!
This is just wrong!
What the police department has done
is increase the number
of uniformed officers...
Just to assess the
situation as it changes
and then adjust as it changes.
And be prepared for, for
whatever comes about.
Has justice been done
in the courtroom? We pray...
By the time you all see this,
you will already know the O.J. verdict.
Who's nervous? Is anybody nervous? Yeah.
You know he didn't do it!
It's a big day, huh, O.J.?
The biggest.
Hey, man, I just want you to know...
Guarding you in here...
It's been a pleasure.
There's a lot of real assholes
that come through this place and...
you've always been a stand-up guy.
Thanks, Eddie.
Blade me.
And, uh, I was hoping
before we go in,
that maybe you could sign this.
For my kid.
Uh, sure, Eddie, no problem.
I could do that.
Thank you.
So nervous.
Hope I don't cut myself.
You know, I don't think
you need to be nervous.
I've been talking to my buddies
over at the-the hotel where
they're keeping the jurors.
Let's just say I don't think
you need to be nervous at all.
Four hours.
But how is that even possible?
Four hours?
All this, all of it,
and they go into a room
and they talk about it for four hours?
I thought I'd have weeks
to get a statement
ready; two statements.
And now I got... aw, shit.
I'll see you guys later.
You know, statistically, a deliberation
this fast spells guilty.
Statistically, I know, but...
All they asked to be read back
was the limo driver testimony.
That...
that sounds good.
Really good.
I'm not going to say it.
Then I will.
Marcia, what if we won?
All right, can we have the jury, please?
Thank you.
May the record reflect
we've now been rejoined
by all the members
of our jury panel and our alternates.
All right, Mrs. Robertson,
do you have the envelope
with the sealed verdict for us?
Yes.
Would you please hand those forms
over to Deputy Trower?
And would you please
return them to our foreperson,
Juror Number 1?
Madam Foreperson, would you please
open the envelope and check
the condition of those verdict forms?
- Are they in order?
- Yes, Your Honor.
You have signed and dated
those verdict forms?
- Yes, Your Honor.
- Thank you very much.
Please hand them back to Deputy Trower.
Thank you.
All right, Mrs. Robertson.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Mr. Simpson?
Would you please stand
and face the jury?
I would caution the
audience during the course
of the reading of these
verdicts to remain calm.
If there's any disruption, the bailiffs
will remove the persons responsible.
All right, Mrs. Robertson.
"Superior Court of California,
"County of Los Angeles
"in the matter of People
of the State of California
"versus Orenthal James Simpson,
"case number
"BA097211.
"We the jury in the
above-entitled action
"find the defendant
"Orenja... Orenthal James Simpson...
"not guilty of the crime
"of murder in violation of penal code
"section 187, a felony,
"upon Nicole Brown
Simpson, a human being,
as charged in count one
of the information."
"We the jury in the
above-entitled action
"find the defendant
"Orenthal James Simpson not guilty
"of the crime of murder
"in violation of penal code section 187,
"a felony upon Ronald Lyle Goldman,
a human being, as charged in
count two of the information."
All right, thank you.
Will you please be seated?
Ladies and the gentlemen
of the jury, I am now
going to excuse you
from any further service
on this trial.
The burdens that we put
upon you were enormous.
And words cannot to
begin to express the debt
that we owe you for your
time and your patience
that you have provided to us,
so thank you very much.
Mr. Kardashian...
I have nothing to say now, sorry.
O.J.! O.J.! O.J.!
O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! O.J.!
20 years in public service...
and I feel like my headstone
will say, "He lost O.J."
They're waiting.
I can't do it.
I just can't go out there.
We owe it to the families.
I'm so ashamed.
Look, I don't...
I don't want you to be hard on yourself.
Yeah, because there are
plenty of other people
who can do that for me.
Look.
I want you to know I admire you
for what you did.
For what? For botching
an air-tight case?
For... for making the case
for the people of California.
Given what they threw at you,
there were a lot of temptations
to play their game.
And you didn't.
We are all profoundly disappointed
with this verdict.
But it was clear to me
and to the prosecution
that this was an emotional trial.
And apparently,
the jury's decision was based on...
emotion
and not reason.
None of you will know the sacrifices
that this team and their families made.
We're very proud of them.
And we stand here in front of you
with our heads held high.
I'd like to give Marcia
the opportunity to say thank you.
I first want to extend my deepest thanks
to the families of the victims.
To the Goldmans and to the Browns.
Their strength, their dignity
and their support throughout this trial
has been a tremendous
source of inspiration
and strength to all of us.
This case was fought as a battle
for victims of domestic violence.
We hope this verdict
does not discourage the victims
who are out there
throughout this country
from seeking help.
I know there are women who
are, at this very moment,
living in fear,
living in violence.
Please, don't let this
make you lose faith in our system.
Thank you.
Chris?
Uh...
if there is anything
that ever motivated me
throughout the trial, it was the,
the idea, the notion that one day
I would have to turn and...
to the Goldmans
and, uh...
with the realization
that he had been acquitted.
But that is the verdict,
that is the jury's, uh,
position.
That's their voice.
And I accept that verdict.
Uh...
we came here in search of justice.
And you'll have to be
the judges, I expect,
as to whether or not, uh,
any of us found it today.
But I'm not bitter.
And I'm not angry.
But I'd also like to thank the, uh,
lawyers on our prosecution team.
I am honored to have, uh...
Gil?
Gil? Gil?
You gonna look for the real killer now?
repeat of the 1992 Rodney King trial,
the scenes of violence the
LAPD feared might result
from the verdict have failed
to materialize thus far.
If anything, what we're seeing, Tracy,
are people taking to
the streets not to riot,
but to celebr...
What are we gonna do now?
Got a minute?
I...
I appreciate how hard you fought.
Especially that closing.
This was war.
And you did a superb job.
I respect that.
I...
I know how difficult
this has been on you.
And when the dust settles...
I'd like to help bring you
back into the community.
Hmm.
Well, I never left.
You think I don't understand
the situation? I get it.
It's payback.
O.J.'s the first black defendant
in history to get off
because he's black.
The people will see who
the police really are...
And the people saw was how
well you can twist the system.
This isn't some civil rights milestone.
Police in this country
will keep arresting us,
keep beating us, keep killing us.
You haven't changed anything
for black people here.
Unless, of course,
you're a famous, rich one in Brentwood.
Whoa!
Look at what we got here!
Thank you.
Look at this spread.
- It's so...
- Last minute.
It's the best we could
find at the market.
Thank you. Thank you, darling.
You're welcome.
From the very beginning,
you encouraged me to do it.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
And to you, brother,
the whole way.
To you all, thank you.
To you,
for the journey.
It has been a journey.
Hey, Johnnie?
- Yes, darling?
- They talking about you.
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, honey, should... ?
- Yes.
- Don't now...
Come on!
Go!
I ain't got to run no more?
Today that's a good thing.
Ain't got to run no more
now. No more running.
Look at this.
It will be very interesting to
see what this verdict will mean
for the future of the LAPD.
Johnnie Cochran has shed a
light on long-hidden practices
of excessive force.
The Justice Department is said
to be launching an investigation
of the standards and
practices of the LAPD.
So I-I have nothing to add to that...
My God, that's Clinton!
You got the president.
In terms of the way Americans see
the world differently generally
based on their race...
uh...
that troubles me.
I think the only answer to that
is for us to spend more time
listening to each other.
And try to under... try to put
ourselves in each other's shoes
and understand why we see
the world in different ways,
uh, and keep trying to overcome that.
I would say that, uh, even
though it's disturbing,
That's the victory.
Uh, we have succeeded so far,
in managing the world's most
multi-ethnic diverse democracy.
Our story is now out of the shadows.
Smaller than we are with
fewer differences...
Hey, big time.
Did you see outside?
People are celebrating.
They're celebrating him.
Celebrating the verdict.
I'm gonna resign.
- No, no.
- No, you can't do that.
I was ready to resign before this case.
Everything else here comes
before doing the good.
The politics, image, career.
And it's not me.
Maybe you're lucky it isn't.
Maybe you have to have some...
thing inside you already
when you get here.
Something that you have to make right.
Something that you have to avenge.
When I was 17, I was raped.
I was raped in Italy by a waiter.
And I buried it.
Didn't forget it.
Just... sort of stuffed it.
When I had my first rape case,
what happened to me, of
course, came flying out
from whatever rock I had
jammed it under and...
I had to deal with it.
And it was hell all over again,
in a way.
But it made something
very, very clear to me.
I have something...
This thing in me...
That wants vengeance.
Vengeance for victims.
That's what justice is to me.
And I have always, always had faith
that when I look at a jury,
we have that in common.
Everyone wants justice
for victims, right?
I never doubted that...
until this.
After all they heard,
after all they know,
a man who beat and beat
and terrorized his wife,
until he just... snuffed her out.
And they let him go.
For reasons that have nothing to do
with what he did to those two people.
I don't know why there were here.
And so I don't know why I'm here.
What happened to the waiter?
The same thing that happened today.
So, what do you want to do now?
Is it too early for a drink?
No.
Bobby.
Bobby, Bobby.
Bobby.
Thank you.
You were always there for me.
You never doubted.
I got a surprise for you.
Want to guess what it is?
Something special.
The first day I was in here,
you gave me your Bible.
I know how much
it means to you, so I'm
gonna give it back to you.
Yes, it does.
Aw, man.
Nah, Bobby, we did it.
We won.
Come on, man, it's time to celebrate.
Get the hell out of here.
Aw, that better not be a Bronco.
I ain't going up the
405 in no damn Bronco.
It's, uh...
It's a Ford Aerostar.
Yeah, man.
Live picture now
of the van carrying O.J. Simpson,
returning to his home at
360 North Rockingham...
more than a year later, watching
a white vehicle heading for
the Los Angeles Expressway,
with an innocent man in it.
We saw jubilation at the courthouse.
It'll be interesting to see
what type of reaction he
gets in his neighborhood.
They have time to head over there now...
Well, remember the reaction
during the, uh, infamous
slow-speed chase...
People actually standing
over freeway, uh, uh...
viaducts and bridges, holding signs...
O.J. Simpson returns home
a free man, not guilty.
This is the first time
O.J. Simpson has been here
since February 12, 1995...
That was the jury visit.
Ah, it's all so beautiful.
I miss Brentwood.
So, what are you gonna do first?
Well, tonight, I'm gonna party.
We got a real rager planned!
Star Magazine is paying $400,000
for the exclusive rights to take photos.
I'm done dealing with
the Trial of the Century.
Tonight...
I'm throwing the party of the century!
I'm back, Brentwood.
I'm back.
Go back! Go back!
Get out of here!
Go on, get out of here!
The hell are they doing here?
I was found not guilty.
Some bullshit.
All right! Yeah!
Mama.
Orenthal.
Welcome home, Dad.
All right.
Welcome home, Juice.
Where's Sydney and Justin?
The Browns didn't want
to bring 'em over.
- Come on.
- You all right, baby.
- Let's get you in the house, Juice.
- You all right.
Welcome home, brother.
Uh, yeah, come in.
Hey.
Hey, Dad.
Hey, uh, you good?
Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
It's a... it's a big day.
Feels big, right?
Yeah.
What you got going on under there?
Who is this?
Well, he doesn't have a name yet.
Hey.
But he's all yours though.
Why the hell'd you give me a puppy?
I don't know, I just, uh...
just wanted to make sure
you always had a friend.
Yeah.
You've been called the architect
of the defense team.
You were the first one
hired by O.J. Simpson.
It was the day after the murders.
Who hired Johnnie Cochran?
I did.
You had to.
Johnnie Cochran was hired
not just because he was a good lawyer,
but because he was black?
A combination of both.
Mr. Shapiro, you said in the beginning
that race would not be a
determining part of this case,
and you would not play the race card.
The race card was surely played.
Barbara, my position has
always been the same:
race should not and would
not be part of this case.
I was wrong.
We not only played the race card,
we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.
Oh, now he's trying to take it back.
Trying to get back in
with his West L.A. friends.
- Jerk.
- No, no, no, baby.
That's the kind of shifty
stuff that makes him
the man to call when you need that.
It's just Shapiro being Shapiro.
That's enough of that.
Time to party, y'all.
Hey, Jason. Yeah.
Call the Riviera
and get my table for tomorrow.
Okay.
- Reservation for ten.
- Yeah.
- Uh, matter of fact, 15.
- Okay.
Enough for everybody and
then a couple more too.
Okay.
- Come on, let's celebrate!
- Juice!
Welcome home!
Who are all these people?
I don't know.
Friends of friends, maybe?
Well, where are the guys from the club?
Where's Jerry, Craig, Don?
Hell, where-where's Kato?
I don't know, Juice.
Okay. Okay.
Excuse me, excuse me, everyone!
I just want to make a brief statement.
Okay, uh, I am relieved
that this incredible part
of the nightmare that occurred
on June 12, 1994, is over.
My first obligation is
to my young children,
Sydney and Justin,
who will be raised the way that
Nicole and I had always planned.
Then when things settle down a bit,
I will pursue as my primary goal in life
the killer or killers
who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman.
They're out there somewhere.
Whatever it takes, I will bring them in.
Thank you.
Okay.
Music.
Let's dance, y'all!
Hey, Uncle Bobby.
Leaving already?
I'm done, Jason.
Hey, man.
I knew you were innocent the whole time.
- Oh. Thank you.
- Congrats.
I'm sorry, I'm a little...
How-how do we know each other?
Did-did we play golf
together or something?
No, no, I'm a waiter.
Oh.
- Do you want your drink refilled?
- No, no, I'm...
Hey, Dad.
Oh, hey, son.
Hey, uh, called the Riviera.
They can't take us.
What do you mean?
Call 'em back, ask for Marco.
He'll make room for me.
I did, Dad.
Marco said he doesn't have room for you.
Well, the hell with the Riviera.
I'll find another place.
O.J. Simpson!
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How do I look?
Like a star.
Now, we don't know
what Ito's gonna allow,
but we know that
Marcia's gonna go crazy.
So if you get a chance to start talking,
don't you stop.
Let's go.
Mr. Cochran,
it is my understanding
that you have discussed with your client
his right to testify.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Simpson is waiving his right.
But if the court pleases,
he would like to make
a brief statement regarding the waiver.
Your Honor, the People
object to the defendant
making any statement other
than the waiver at this time.
Counsel, he's not before the jury.
Yes, but we are all aware of
the realities of this case,
the problem with conjugal
visits and telephone calls
that are only monitored on one side.
This is an obvious
attempt by the defense
to get material to the jury
that has not been admitted in court.
It is inappropriate and deliberate.
I strongly urge the
court to exercise control
and not permit testimony
without cross-examination.
Please, Your Honor, don't do this.
My goodness.
There's a great deal of fear
of the truth in this case.
Your Honor, this is still America.
Can we still talk?
All right, go ahead,
Mr. Simpson, briefly.
Good morning, Your Honor.
As much as I'd like to address
some of the misrepresentations
made about myself and my Nicole,
concerning our life together,
I am mindful of the mood and
the stamina of this jury.
I am confident... a lot more,
it seems, than Miss Clark...
About their integrity,
and that they will
find, as it now stands,
that I did not
and could not and would
not commit this crime.
I have four kids.
Two kids I haven't seen in a year.
And every week,
they ask me, "Dad, when
are you coming home?
How much longer?"
- All right...
- Just want this trial to be over.
- All right, thank you, Mr. Simpson.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
You want to address misrepresentations
about you and Nicole, take
a seat in the blue chair,
and we can have a discussion.
Mr. Cochran,
does the defense plan on
calling any further witnesses?
No, Your Honor.
The defense rests.
We have ten jurors.
We have nine.
We have ten.
And then there's that freaking demon.
She hates me.
I've gotten that look
from all my ex-wives.
Jesus, you and that demon.
What did she ever do to you?
- Shawn.
- Mm?
What's up?
Johnnie just got another death threat.
Death threat?
How many has he gotten?
- It's up to 20 now.
- What?!
It's scary.
Johnnie needs protection.
I'm gonna insist he hire someone.
Come on.
"If the glove's too small...
easy call."
No.
"If the gloves...
don't fit... "
Today, the trial of the century
reaches a crescendo
as closing statements begin.
Vegas oddsmakers are
offering six-to-five
in favor of conviction.
Marcia.
Yeah.
Please, nail this.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, we
are coming close to the end,
I promise.
And I want you all to know
how much I appreciate
what you're doing here...
For justice...
And to thank you all from
the bottom of my heart
for the incredible
sacrifices that you've made.
Thank you.
I would like to begin
by first addressing the
issue of Mark Fuhrman.
Just to be clear, is he a racist?
Yes.
Is he the worst LAPD has to offer?
Yes.
Should LAPD ever have hired him?
No.
Should such a person
be a police officer?
No.
In fact, do we wish there were
no such person on the planet?
Yes.
But the fact that Mark
Fuhrman is a racist
and lied about it on the witness stand
does not mean that we haven't
proven that the defendant
is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
And it would be a tragedy
if O.J. Simpson were found not guilty
because of the racist attitudes
of one police officer.
There is an ocean of evidence
that has been unchallenged
by the defense.
In an attempt to distract you from it,
they took you through a twisted road.
One moment saying the
police are bumbling idiots,
the next moment saying the
police are cunning conspirators.
They threw out alternate theories,
hoping one would stick.
But instead of focusing
on those distractions,
I ask you to consider the evidence
the defense did not, and cannot, refute.
The shoe prints at Bundy were
from a size-12 Bruno Magli shoe.
The defendant wears a size-12.
Hair from the defendant was
on the knit cap at Bundy.
Hair from the defendant
was on Ron Goldman's shirt.
The glove found at
Rockingham contains fibers
that match Ron's hair.
The glove contains fibers
that match Nicole's hair.
It has Nicole's blood.
It has Ron's blood.
It has the defendant's blood.
The gloves are extra-large,
the defendant's size.
Here are photos of the defendant
wearing the Aris gloves
at numerous football games.
When limo driver Allan Park arrived,
there was no Bronco out front.
When he left with the defendant,
there was now a Bronco parked outside.
A drop of blood in the Bundy driveway
matches the defendant at a rate
of one-in-170-million.
Nicole's blood was on
the defendant's sock.
This was a match at the
rate of one-in-6.8-billion.
The blood on the rear gate at
Bundy matches the defendant
at rate of one-in-57-billion.
There are only five billion
people on the planet.
That, ladies and gentlemen,
is an identification.
When the defendant was
informed of his wife's death,
he did not ask how she died.
Think about that.
He did not ask how she died.
And then ask yourself,
"Why?"
Ladies and gentlemen,
to grasp this crime,
you must first understand
Mr. Simpson's relationship
to his ex-wife, Nicole.
It was a ticking time bomb.
The fuse was lit in 1985,
the very year they were married.
Officers responded after
Mr. Simpson beat Nicole
and took a baseball bat to her Mercedes.
Then in 1989, Nicole
had to call 911 again,
fearing for her life.
When officers arrived,
Nicole ran towards them, yelling,
"He's going to kill me.
He's going to kill me."
She had a black eye,
a cut forehead, a swollen cheek.
In her torn bra,
Nicole pleaded with the officers,
"You've come up here eight times.
You never do anything about him."
And they want to tell you
that the police conspired
against Mr. Simpson.
This case
is not about the "N" word.
It is about O.J. Simpson
and the "M" word, "murder."
I'm not afraid to point
to him and say he did it.
Why not?
The evidence all points to him.
In February 1992, Nicole
filed for divorce.
She was running away from the
man who said he'd kill her.
She saw the explosion coming.
Why else fill a safe-deposit box
with threatening letters
from the defendant,
a will and police
photos of past beatings?
She knew that the bomb
could go off at any second.
And then it did.
On June 12, 1994,
while their daughter danced,
the defendant kept his
eyes fixed on Nicole.
Spurned.
Now imagine this
defendant in the Bronco.
He is full of anger,
and he is full of rage,
and it is nighttime, and he is driving,
and the focus of his anger is Nicole.
It is 10:00, and he's
driving as fast as he can.
He is out of control, folks.
The fact that the kids are in the house
means nothing to this man.
Simpson has lost Nicole,
and he is upset and angry.
The fuse is getting shorter.
The anger is building.
The rage he has, the anger, the hate,
flows out of him and into the knife
and from the knife into her.
With each thrust of the
knife into her body,
there's a release,
a small release.
And he stabs and cuts and slices
until that rage is gone.
Until Nicole and Ron are gone.
He's a murderer.
He was also one hell of
a great football player.
But he's still a murderer.
At the outset...
let me say
that not one bit of domestic
violence is tolerable.
O.J. Simpson
is not proud of some of the things
that happened during his marriage.
Does that add up to murder?
No.
Mr. Darden talked about 1985,
but he missed the whole point.
Something interesting happened
in 1985.
Mark Fuhrman
responded to a call on Rockingham.
He saw a white woman
married to a powerful black man.
He didn't like that.
He didn't like that.
'Cause he's a hardened racist.
Mark Fuhrman is the one who said,
"If I see an interracial couple,
"I'm gonna stop them.
"If I don't have a reason,
I'm gonna make something up."
So you have a lying Mark Fuhrman,
the personification of evil,
who found the gloves.
But don't be fooled.
This isn't just one officer.
Mark Fuhrman represents
the entire...
LAPD.
Now, you may not know this,
but you are... empowered.
Your decision has a major implication
both in this courtroom
and outside of it.
Things happen for a reason in life.
Maybe that's why we're
gathered together.
Something in your background,
your character, helps you to know
that this is wrong.
Maybe you're the right
people at the right time
to be able to say, "No more."
We can't have this."
What they have done
is disgraceful.
O.J. Simpson
is entitled to an acquittal.
They have entrusted
this case to a man who says
he'd like to see all niggers
gathered together and killed.
That is genocide.
That man speaks
like Adolf Hitler.
Now, since you can't trust the man
and you don't trust the People,
is it any wonder,
in the defining moment in this trial,
when they asked
O.J. Simpson to try on the glove
and the glove didn't fit.
It didn't fit because it wasn't his.
If you don't stop this
cover-up, who will?
Send them a message.
Let them know
that your verdict will travel
far outside these walls.
Ladies and gentlemen,
remember these words:
if it doesn't fit,
you must acquit.
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
If it doesn't fit...
you must acquit.
Well, that's it. There's
nothing else we can do.
How long do you think they'll take?
On this trial, nothing's gone fast.
Could be forever.
Somebody hold the elevator, please?
Well, I'm getting the hell out.
Taking my kids to Santa Barbara
for some real family time.
Call me if anything happens.
And what if nothing happens?
Then call me in a month to say "hi."
Well, I've got a speech in Laguna Beach.
A snack food convention.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
I'm flying back to New York.
Vacation talk? Whew. I need one.
Heading to the airport.
I got a speech in San Francisco.
You know what I would do,
if I had the spare time?
I would go up to Oscar De
La Hoya's training camp
and I would spend my day sparring
and-and hitting the heavy bag.
Bob, airport.
Okay.
I've never been a foreperson before.
I've never even been on a jury before,
so if any of you have suggestions,
I'm open to hearing them.
Why not take a vote? Already?
I mean, just to get a sense of the room.
Like a straw poll.
Yeah. That's good.
Um, but the instructions say
that the voting should
be done in secret,
so nobody feels uncomfortable.
So, uh, why don't we
just do paper ballots?
Just write "guilty" or "not guilty."
Okay.
Do I have everybody?
All right.
Here we go.
Anise, would you tally for us?
Sure.
Okay.
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Not guilty."
"Guilty."
"Not guilty."
And...
"not guilty."
So the tally is...
We can all do the math.
Okay, I'll just say it.
I voted guilty.
I mean,
look at all the evidence.
There is just so much.
And what about all the facts
that the defense didn't
even bother to address?
I mean, just that alone...
Why wasn't there more
blood in the Bronco?
There was so much blood at the scene.
I'd make more of a mess in my
car if I spilt a milkshake.
Goldman had injuries on his hands,
like he was defending himself.
Why didn't O.J. have any marks on him?
What about the cut on his hand?
The gloves did not fit.
Oh, now, they did kind of fit.
Looked to me like O.J. was just
trying to not make 'em fit.
Why were they not inside out?
That's how they would be
if he take 'em off. Mm-hmm.
Shouldn't there have been more blood
around the glove they
found at O.J.'s house?
And wouldn't there be blood
on the leaves?
You can just ask Mark
Fuhrman about that.
There's too many mess-ups.
Too much strange stuff
going on in the thing.
You will never convince me
that he did it without a doubt.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Whatever.
All right, all right. Look.
You might think he did it.
Hell, I might think he did it.
But can we honestly sit here
and say they proved it?
I will never,
ever think they proved it.
Never.
Never, ever.
Yes?
Are you shitting me?
They have a verdict.
You need to get down to court.
How can they have a verdict?
They can't.
It's impossible.
Oh, come on. You're kidding!
You're joking!
It's been half a day!
Four hours.
Four hours!
It's only good.
There's no way a jury
convicts on a double homicide
after four hours of debate.
Not even four.
To fill out the forms for
"guilty" takes an hour.
Then, they had a lunch break.
My God, they've discussed this case
less than anybody in America.
What are these people doing here?
Bob, you know
I've been receiving death threats.
I don't take my safety
lightly, especially not today.
You couldn't do this without
the help of Louis Farrakhan?
Robert, did you know about this?
Not until I got here, no.
Do you know what this looks like?
These are the same people that think
that some Jews are the devil and that...
and that my people have
no claim to Israel!
I had nothing to do with it, Bob.
I don't speak for Louis Farrakhan,
but I trust him
with my personal security and yours.
How could you? You-you know
appearance better than anyone.
How could you, on the
day of the verdict...
This verdict... you arrive
with strident black extremists.
Jesus, Bob! It's a secure
way to get in and out
of what could explode into hell.
Just get in the van or I'll
tell them you're Jewish.
Oh, bullshit. This is
bullsh... Step back!
This is just wrong!
What the police department has done
is increase the number
of uniformed officers...
Just to assess the
situation as it changes
and then adjust as it changes.
And be prepared for, for
whatever comes about.
Has justice been done
in the courtroom? We pray...
By the time you all see this,
you will already know the O.J. verdict.
Who's nervous? Is anybody nervous? Yeah.
You know he didn't do it!
It's a big day, huh, O.J.?
The biggest.
Hey, man, I just want you to know...
Guarding you in here...
It's been a pleasure.
There's a lot of real assholes
that come through this place and...
you've always been a stand-up guy.
Thanks, Eddie.
Blade me.
And, uh, I was hoping
before we go in,
that maybe you could sign this.
For my kid.
Uh, sure, Eddie, no problem.
I could do that.
Thank you.
So nervous.
Hope I don't cut myself.
You know, I don't think
you need to be nervous.
I've been talking to my buddies
over at the-the hotel where
they're keeping the jurors.
Let's just say I don't think
you need to be nervous at all.
Four hours.
But how is that even possible?
Four hours?
All this, all of it,
and they go into a room
and they talk about it for four hours?
I thought I'd have weeks
to get a statement
ready; two statements.
And now I got... aw, shit.
I'll see you guys later.
You know, statistically, a deliberation
this fast spells guilty.
Statistically, I know, but...
All they asked to be read back
was the limo driver testimony.
That...
that sounds good.
Really good.
I'm not going to say it.
Then I will.
Marcia, what if we won?
All right, can we have the jury, please?
Thank you.
May the record reflect
we've now been rejoined
by all the members
of our jury panel and our alternates.
All right, Mrs. Robertson,
do you have the envelope
with the sealed verdict for us?
Yes.
Would you please hand those forms
over to Deputy Trower?
And would you please
return them to our foreperson,
Juror Number 1?
Madam Foreperson, would you please
open the envelope and check
the condition of those verdict forms?
- Are they in order?
- Yes, Your Honor.
You have signed and dated
those verdict forms?
- Yes, Your Honor.
- Thank you very much.
Please hand them back to Deputy Trower.
Thank you.
All right, Mrs. Robertson.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Mr. Simpson?
Would you please stand
and face the jury?
I would caution the
audience during the course
of the reading of these
verdicts to remain calm.
If there's any disruption, the bailiffs
will remove the persons responsible.
All right, Mrs. Robertson.
"Superior Court of California,
"County of Los Angeles
"in the matter of People
of the State of California
"versus Orenthal James Simpson,
"case number
"BA097211.
"We the jury in the
above-entitled action
"find the defendant
"Orenja... Orenthal James Simpson...
"not guilty of the crime
"of murder in violation of penal code
"section 187, a felony,
"upon Nicole Brown
Simpson, a human being,
as charged in count one
of the information."
"We the jury in the
above-entitled action
"find the defendant
"Orenthal James Simpson not guilty
"of the crime of murder
"in violation of penal code section 187,
"a felony upon Ronald Lyle Goldman,
a human being, as charged in
count two of the information."
All right, thank you.
Will you please be seated?
Ladies and the gentlemen
of the jury, I am now
going to excuse you
from any further service
on this trial.
The burdens that we put
upon you were enormous.
And words cannot to
begin to express the debt
that we owe you for your
time and your patience
that you have provided to us,
so thank you very much.
Mr. Kardashian...
I have nothing to say now, sorry.
O.J.! O.J.! O.J.!
O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! O.J.!
20 years in public service...
and I feel like my headstone
will say, "He lost O.J."
They're waiting.
I can't do it.
I just can't go out there.
We owe it to the families.
I'm so ashamed.
Look, I don't...
I don't want you to be hard on yourself.
Yeah, because there are
plenty of other people
who can do that for me.
Look.
I want you to know I admire you
for what you did.
For what? For botching
an air-tight case?
For... for making the case
for the people of California.
Given what they threw at you,
there were a lot of temptations
to play their game.
And you didn't.
We are all profoundly disappointed
with this verdict.
But it was clear to me
and to the prosecution
that this was an emotional trial.
And apparently,
the jury's decision was based on...
emotion
and not reason.
None of you will know the sacrifices
that this team and their families made.
We're very proud of them.
And we stand here in front of you
with our heads held high.
I'd like to give Marcia
the opportunity to say thank you.
I first want to extend my deepest thanks
to the families of the victims.
To the Goldmans and to the Browns.
Their strength, their dignity
and their support throughout this trial
has been a tremendous
source of inspiration
and strength to all of us.
This case was fought as a battle
for victims of domestic violence.
We hope this verdict
does not discourage the victims
who are out there
throughout this country
from seeking help.
I know there are women who
are, at this very moment,
living in fear,
living in violence.
Please, don't let this
make you lose faith in our system.
Thank you.
Chris?
Uh...
if there is anything
that ever motivated me
throughout the trial, it was the,
the idea, the notion that one day
I would have to turn and...
to the Goldmans
and, uh...
with the realization
that he had been acquitted.
But that is the verdict,
that is the jury's, uh,
position.
That's their voice.
And I accept that verdict.
Uh...
we came here in search of justice.
And you'll have to be
the judges, I expect,
as to whether or not, uh,
any of us found it today.
But I'm not bitter.
And I'm not angry.
But I'd also like to thank the, uh,
lawyers on our prosecution team.
I am honored to have, uh...
Gil?
Gil? Gil?
You gonna look for the real killer now?
repeat of the 1992 Rodney King trial,
the scenes of violence the
LAPD feared might result
from the verdict have failed
to materialize thus far.
If anything, what we're seeing, Tracy,
are people taking to
the streets not to riot,
but to celebr...
What are we gonna do now?
Got a minute?
I...
I appreciate how hard you fought.
Especially that closing.
This was war.
And you did a superb job.
I respect that.
I...
I know how difficult
this has been on you.
And when the dust settles...
I'd like to help bring you
back into the community.
Hmm.
Well, I never left.
You think I don't understand
the situation? I get it.
It's payback.
O.J.'s the first black defendant
in history to get off
because he's black.
The people will see who
the police really are...
And the people saw was how
well you can twist the system.
This isn't some civil rights milestone.
Police in this country
will keep arresting us,
keep beating us, keep killing us.
You haven't changed anything
for black people here.
Unless, of course,
you're a famous, rich one in Brentwood.
Whoa!
Look at what we got here!
Thank you.
Look at this spread.
- It's so...
- Last minute.
It's the best we could
find at the market.
Thank you. Thank you, darling.
You're welcome.
From the very beginning,
you encouraged me to do it.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
And to you, brother,
the whole way.
To you all, thank you.
To you,
for the journey.
It has been a journey.
Hey, Johnnie?
- Yes, darling?
- They talking about you.
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, honey, should... ?
- Yes.
- Don't now...
Come on!
Go!
I ain't got to run no more?
Today that's a good thing.
Ain't got to run no more
now. No more running.
Look at this.
It will be very interesting to
see what this verdict will mean
for the future of the LAPD.
Johnnie Cochran has shed a
light on long-hidden practices
of excessive force.
The Justice Department is said
to be launching an investigation
of the standards and
practices of the LAPD.
So I-I have nothing to add to that...
My God, that's Clinton!
You got the president.
In terms of the way Americans see
the world differently generally
based on their race...
uh...
that troubles me.
I think the only answer to that
is for us to spend more time
listening to each other.
And try to under... try to put
ourselves in each other's shoes
and understand why we see
the world in different ways,
uh, and keep trying to overcome that.
I would say that, uh, even
though it's disturbing,
That's the victory.
Uh, we have succeeded so far,
in managing the world's most
multi-ethnic diverse democracy.
Our story is now out of the shadows.
Smaller than we are with
fewer differences...
Hey, big time.
Did you see outside?
People are celebrating.
They're celebrating him.
Celebrating the verdict.
I'm gonna resign.
- No, no.
- No, you can't do that.
I was ready to resign before this case.
Everything else here comes
before doing the good.
The politics, image, career.
And it's not me.
Maybe you're lucky it isn't.
Maybe you have to have some...
thing inside you already
when you get here.
Something that you have to make right.
Something that you have to avenge.
When I was 17, I was raped.
I was raped in Italy by a waiter.
And I buried it.
Didn't forget it.
Just... sort of stuffed it.
When I had my first rape case,
what happened to me, of
course, came flying out
from whatever rock I had
jammed it under and...
I had to deal with it.
And it was hell all over again,
in a way.
But it made something
very, very clear to me.
I have something...
This thing in me...
That wants vengeance.
Vengeance for victims.
That's what justice is to me.
And I have always, always had faith
that when I look at a jury,
we have that in common.
Everyone wants justice
for victims, right?
I never doubted that...
until this.
After all they heard,
after all they know,
a man who beat and beat
and terrorized his wife,
until he just... snuffed her out.
And they let him go.
For reasons that have nothing to do
with what he did to those two people.
I don't know why there were here.
And so I don't know why I'm here.
What happened to the waiter?
The same thing that happened today.
So, what do you want to do now?
Is it too early for a drink?
No.
Bobby.
Bobby, Bobby.
Bobby.
Thank you.
You were always there for me.
You never doubted.
I got a surprise for you.
Want to guess what it is?
Something special.
The first day I was in here,
you gave me your Bible.
I know how much
it means to you, so I'm
gonna give it back to you.
Yes, it does.
Aw, man.
Nah, Bobby, we did it.
We won.
Come on, man, it's time to celebrate.
Get the hell out of here.
Aw, that better not be a Bronco.
I ain't going up the
405 in no damn Bronco.
It's, uh...
It's a Ford Aerostar.
Yeah, man.
Live picture now
of the van carrying O.J. Simpson,
returning to his home at
360 North Rockingham...
more than a year later, watching
a white vehicle heading for
the Los Angeles Expressway,
with an innocent man in it.
We saw jubilation at the courthouse.
It'll be interesting to see
what type of reaction he
gets in his neighborhood.
They have time to head over there now...
Well, remember the reaction
during the, uh, infamous
slow-speed chase...
People actually standing
over freeway, uh, uh...
viaducts and bridges, holding signs...
O.J. Simpson returns home
a free man, not guilty.
This is the first time
O.J. Simpson has been here
since February 12, 1995...
That was the jury visit.
Ah, it's all so beautiful.
I miss Brentwood.
So, what are you gonna do first?
Well, tonight, I'm gonna party.
We got a real rager planned!
Star Magazine is paying $400,000
for the exclusive rights to take photos.
I'm done dealing with
the Trial of the Century.
Tonight...
I'm throwing the party of the century!
I'm back, Brentwood.
I'm back.
Go back! Go back!
Get out of here!
Go on, get out of here!
The hell are they doing here?
I was found not guilty.
Some bullshit.
All right! Yeah!
Mama.
Orenthal.
Welcome home, Dad.
All right.
Welcome home, Juice.
Where's Sydney and Justin?
The Browns didn't want
to bring 'em over.
- Come on.
- You all right, baby.
- Let's get you in the house, Juice.
- You all right.
Welcome home, brother.
Uh, yeah, come in.
Hey.
Hey, Dad.
Hey, uh, you good?
Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
It's a... it's a big day.
Feels big, right?
Yeah.
What you got going on under there?
Who is this?
Well, he doesn't have a name yet.
Hey.
But he's all yours though.
Why the hell'd you give me a puppy?
I don't know, I just, uh...
just wanted to make sure
you always had a friend.
Yeah.
You've been called the architect
of the defense team.
You were the first one
hired by O.J. Simpson.
It was the day after the murders.
Who hired Johnnie Cochran?
I did.
You had to.
Johnnie Cochran was hired
not just because he was a good lawyer,
but because he was black?
A combination of both.
Mr. Shapiro, you said in the beginning
that race would not be a
determining part of this case,
and you would not play the race card.
The race card was surely played.
Barbara, my position has
always been the same:
race should not and would
not be part of this case.
I was wrong.
We not only played the race card,
we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.
Oh, now he's trying to take it back.
Trying to get back in
with his West L.A. friends.
- Jerk.
- No, no, no, baby.
That's the kind of shifty
stuff that makes him
the man to call when you need that.
It's just Shapiro being Shapiro.
That's enough of that.
Time to party, y'all.
Hey, Jason. Yeah.
Call the Riviera
and get my table for tomorrow.
Okay.
- Reservation for ten.
- Yeah.
- Uh, matter of fact, 15.
- Okay.
Enough for everybody and
then a couple more too.
Okay.
- Come on, let's celebrate!
- Juice!
Welcome home!
Who are all these people?
I don't know.
Friends of friends, maybe?
Well, where are the guys from the club?
Where's Jerry, Craig, Don?
Hell, where-where's Kato?
I don't know, Juice.
Okay. Okay.
Excuse me, excuse me, everyone!
I just want to make a brief statement.
Okay, uh, I am relieved
that this incredible part
of the nightmare that occurred
on June 12, 1994, is over.
My first obligation is
to my young children,
Sydney and Justin,
who will be raised the way that
Nicole and I had always planned.
Then when things settle down a bit,
I will pursue as my primary goal in life
the killer or killers
who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman.
They're out there somewhere.
Whatever it takes, I will bring them in.
Thank you.
Okay.
Music.
Let's dance, y'all!
Hey, Uncle Bobby.
Leaving already?
I'm done, Jason.
Hey, man.
I knew you were innocent the whole time.
- Oh. Thank you.
- Congrats.
I'm sorry, I'm a little...
How-how do we know each other?
Did-did we play golf
together or something?
No, no, I'm a waiter.
Oh.
- Do you want your drink refilled?
- No, no, I'm...
Hey, Dad.
Oh, hey, son.
Hey, uh, called the Riviera.
They can't take us.
What do you mean?
Call 'em back, ask for Marco.
He'll make room for me.
I did, Dad.
Marco said he doesn't have room for you.
Well, the hell with the Riviera.
I'll find another place.
O.J. Simpson!
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