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Superstar Lawyer Johnnie Cochran Dies
Associated Press Writer | 3/.29/05 | GREG RISLING,

Posted on 03/29/2005 4:15:39 PM PST by wingblade

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To: 7.62 x 51mm
Good riddance, rot in hell and burn in The Lake Of Sulphur, Cockroach. As one who helped destroy Justice and The Rule Of Law in America, you truly deserve eternal damnation. IMO.

I wish you a successful and long life and when you and I are both dust I hope to join you in Heaven and we will rejoice together with the Angels.

21 posted on 03/29/2005 4:45:22 PM PST by Holly_P
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To: wingblade

MSM is slow on the announcement. This was in the tabloids a couple of days day.


22 posted on 03/29/2005 4:45:40 PM PST by politicalwit (Import Poverty...Hire an Illegal Alien)
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To: wingblade
Yup. Already posted.

My Book, Bradypalooza

23 posted on 03/29/2005 4:46:21 PM PST by YourAdHere (My Brady Bunch book is now available!)
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To: wingblade

He had brain disorder? Did his next of kin then ordered removal of his feeding or NG tube since he would die anyway?


24 posted on 03/29/2005 4:54:37 PM PST by hamboy
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To: Steve_Seattle

"I loved it when he was spoofed on Seinfeld..."

That guy was so great! Then he was really good playing a black CONSERVATIVE reporter on "Wanda at Large", one of the better, and less PC, of recent comedies.

Sad about Johnny Cochran, I would have hired him to defend me in a NY minute after he got OJ off.


25 posted on 03/29/2005 4:56:13 PM PST by jocon307 (We can try to understand the New York Times effect on man)
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To: wingblade

I have an idea. Let's all give a bunch of phoney baloney words of sorrow.


26 posted on 03/29/2005 4:58:10 PM PST by SerpentDove (Let's not go casting asparagus...)
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To: hamboy

Oh c'mon, can't we read about johnny without that other stuff coming up. It is getting tiresome.


27 posted on 03/29/2005 4:58:55 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: foolscap

Neither am I. Two down, Kardashian and Cochran. Hell is getting crowded.


28 posted on 03/29/2005 5:05:01 PM PST by angcat
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To: wingblade

What Superstar status did he have?


29 posted on 03/29/2005 5:06:56 PM PST by Ramtek57
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Why? Just because he beat the two MOST incompetent lawyers in the history of mankind? Marcia Clark and Chris Darden should never be practicing law again.


30 posted on 03/29/2005 5:07:45 PM PST by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: wingblade

They say "speak not ill of the dead", but if that was the case we'd all say nice things about Hitler. The only difference is that Hitler was a 'BIG COCKROACH', and people like Johnny Cochran are 'little cockroaches'.

An adulterer; a shyster who swindled some of his clients; and a man who played the race card to get a brutal double murderer free to spend the rest of his life enjoying his pursuits of fun and pleasure. A lawyer who knew his client was guilty, but wanted him free anyways. He got a tumor in the same brain he used to do it all. I don't wish that on anybody, but compared to Ron and Nichole, Johnny got out of this world easy. May he rest in peace?? Naw, may he meet Ron and Nichole instead to explain his twisted views of 'justice'.


31 posted on 03/29/2005 5:08:42 PM PST by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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To: GLDNGUN

The media must have known he was sick since they were able to come up with such an extensive bio this quickly.


32 posted on 03/29/2005 5:09:38 PM PST by Trust but Verify (Pull up a chair and watch history being made.)
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To: jocon307
"I loved it when he was spoofed on Seinfeld..."

That guy was so great! Then he was really good playing a black CONSERVATIVE reporter on "Wanda at Large", one of the better, and less PC, of recent comedies.

Phil Morris (son of "Mission Impossible's" Greg Morris). Good character actor. I keep seeing him show up here and there...


33 posted on 03/29/2005 5:10:43 PM PST by mhking (If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
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To: LRS
I wonder if St. Peter will say: "If the soul don't fit, you'll have to split..."

If the tumor in yo head, yo soon be dead!

34 posted on 03/29/2005 5:12:26 PM PST by MoodyBlu
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To: wingblade
I've got a feeling Mr. Cochran will be needing the Chewbacca defense once he reaches those pearly gates. Anything less and he's toast.
35 posted on 03/29/2005 5:12:41 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (This tagline brought to you by Islam. Islam, only the best of the 12th century for you and yours.)
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To: GLDNGUN
" I pray he can see things a little more clearly now."

Amen

36 posted on 03/29/2005 5:16:45 PM PST by ex-snook (Exporting jobs and the money to buy America is lose-lose..)
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To: mhking

"They're real, and they're spectacular!!"


37 posted on 03/29/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: foolscap; This Just In; nothingnew; Congressman Billybob; jan in Colorado; ...
"I can honestly say I am not too torn up over this news.

I agree with you. From the obit, it looks like he most certainly wasn't all bad. He did some unselfish, goodwill things in his short life. Someone had to represent O.J. Johnnie was "just doing his job," most defense lawyers will tell you.

However, I'm going to resist climbing aboard what is going to be a canonization train for this late, departed lawyer. He could have done his job in a more dignified way. Cochran began the daily O.J. Circus. He disrespected the court.........and, alas, Lance Ito collaborated in his own mockery by falling in love with the celebrity scenario.

Johnnie's closing argument was pure street theater - not even tenable as "smoke and mirrors." He was clowning it up, and in so doing, he was also speaking volumes about what dolts he thought the members of the jury were - so dumb that they would accept his theatrics as serious legal argument.

He was right about that, as it turned out. He had read that jury like the palm of his hand.

Sorry, but I ceased having any respect for him (or for the rest of that "dream team") long before Johnnie's coup de grace closing argument song and dance act.

38 posted on 03/29/2005 5:19:25 PM PST by CHARLITE (Women are powerful; freedom is beautiful.........and STUPID IS FOREVER!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

South Park had the best SPOOF of him with the "Chewbacca defense"


39 posted on 03/29/2005 5:20:54 PM PST by Conservative4Life (Blaming GUNS for crimes is like Blaming Rosies weight on Spoons....)
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I did not agree with him profesionally, nor did I respect his work ethic (or the lack there of) .

..excuse me Im feeling a little emotional now.. Who is going to be the next target on SNL??

Dang it Johnnie...


40 posted on 03/29/2005 5:21:08 PM PST by duck duck goose
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