I can honestly say I am not too torn up over this news.
Neither am I. Two down, Kardashian and Cochran. Hell is getting crowded.
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.