Alan Dershowitz - American Crime Story

Evan Handler as Alan Dershowitz, who teaches law at Harvard. Source: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

[@CaptainSalazar69]

“Have you ever heard of a ‘Colombian Neck Tie?’” “A hwhat?”

[@ManNotFoundDog]

"No"

[@newmoon54]

That defense could also backfire badly! All lawyers learn the most important lesson quickly,,, never ask a question without out FIRST knowing what the answer is!!!!! A diversionary tactic must be carefully ~steered~ in the hoped for direction~!~

[@anonymoushuman8443]

@@ManNotFoundDog really? It’s a well known technique employed by drug gangs.

[@Joe_Parmesan]

I love how Marcia looked at him - "are you serious right now??"

[@lovablevietboy]

@@anonymoushuman8443 It's really not that well known, they don't kill that style anymore.

[@PapistWitness]

The actors playing Dershowitz and Cochrane are so accurate it’s legitimately uncanny

[@dcool2u2]

I thought all the actors resembled and acted like the real people they portrayed really well. I am rewatching on Netflix and now I remember that the only one that disappointed me was Cuba Gooding Jr. His voice ruined it for me. Was way too high and scratchy. Sounded more like Kevin Hart.

[@charlie2hype213]

That's dad from Let it shine..Get it Pastor😂😂😂

[@malcolmphillips9010]

@@dcool2u2 I don't even see it on Netflix anymore

[@matthewplaysgames4752]

@@malcolmphillips9010 Same here, but I'm in Canada. The Canadian Netflix sucks.

[@malcolmphillips9010]

@@matthewplaysgames4752 same lol .... I live at canada too and that sucks.

[@orangechickengorl]

Whether you like him or not, Dershowitz is and will always be a brilliant legal mind.

[@JL-uo1di]

And a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@vrushabhbhaskar1348]

And a pedophile.

[@jaymansour1726]

Duuuuhhhh!!!you figured it out huh?😂..jus teasing…

[@tristan-pi2gl]

Yeah Dershowitz is a good lawyer like Ted Bundy was a good serial killer

[@plina178]

How *can* you like him lol

[@RegularGiraffe]

This is spectacular. Instead of the typical trope where the ivory tower intellectual is "above" pathos Dershowitz recognizes all aspects of the trial and is ready to exploit them as he see fits.

[@jodythomas4324]

Whole scene was just perfect but something about how Cuba shuffles his arms as he’s trying to get a better look at the prosecution, superb acting.

[@alvinthalappillil9527]

Evan Handler, the actor playing Dershowitz, acted with OJ Simpson in the never aired NBC TV movie "Frogmen," which wrapped production five weeks prior to the murder.

[@joewhitehead3]

Interesting

[@irawilliams343]

I've been thinking about pursuing law again after all this inspiration from Alan Dershowitz and Johnnie Cochran as well as Marcia Clark

[@loriraymond6789]

Do it!!!

[@kylehofmeister2109]

Take the series with a grain of salt. Cochran, dershowitz, and the whole team are brilliant, but this show does to accurately depict real criminal defense work. Or even the trial for that matter. But it is a very entertaining show.

[@uziclippe]

Do it.

[@uziclippe]

@@kylehofmeister2109 ur wrong. Im a student there and this is doctrine is in the syallbus.

[@JL-uo1di]

Dershowitz is a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@saushik4]

Damn.. what a move

[@LSSYLondon]

Alan is and has always been the Denny Crain of the real legal profession. Pure genius.

[@twilightblue8566]

All of the actors were so good in their roles. In the beginning I was not sure about Cuba Gooding Jr. but then he gave Christopher Darden that incredulous stare entering the courtroom. I was also skeptical of John Travolta but he turned out to be so excellent!! The poor prosecution didn't have a chance. What a fiasco.

[@natalieps2387]

Another funny scene with det lange in the series is when Cochrane asked lange where he was living & lange says " simi valley " ( that's the place all the cops on LAPD live esp the 4 cops who beat rodney king & where the verdict of not guilty " was read ) so Cochrane in the show says in a very funny Tone " simi valley hmm" & lange stands there " like what ?" My mom & I were cracking up at that. God watching Vance, sterling & sarah it really was like watching johnnie Darden & clarke. Well deserved emmys ! Watching this show weekly was like a time machine. I was 13 so a lot of the names were in my head bc they were just in the ether. As I got older & yt & all the books i know the case inside out. I remembered every couple months hearing a new lawyers name on the defense & being confused bc i thought a client only has one lawyer. I think they usually do bc who can afford like 5 known lawyers. This kinda started a lot of things. Like knowing on other high profile cases the name of the lawyer. This trial was so big that nobody even noticed that a verdict came down in the 2nd Melendez trial. Has a murder trial ever went 9 months before? I'm talking high profile where the public was glued every day. My school had us all come into the cafeteria I think 6th grade & up & they put a tv in for us to watch the verdict & some people were visibly sweating & nervous. I went to an all girls prep school & it was about 60% white 40% black & honestly their was no racism at all. It was a tuition school so everyone was financially doing good who was there. Their was varying degrees of wealth but it wasnt classist like a public school maybe with kids from all sorts of financial backgrounds. This was in westchester as well one of the richest counties in America. 15 min no of nyc. Anyway the one time in 4 yrs their was just a little stitch of racial issues was when the principal said over the loud speaker " please no matter what the verdict is we will not tolerate any bursts of violence or anger " & all a group of black girls said out loud " who the hell is she talking about " so that was it. But that's what the oj trial about a double murder did.

[@tylerrebik7700]

1:57 The guy who gives the fax to Cochran would have been much better to play OJ than Cuba Gooding, Jr

[@ec4221]

Yw eh true but they chose Cuba because of the star power

[@vrushabhbhaskar1348]

😂😂😂

[@BenHopkins1000]

What I want to know is how did Dershowitz even know the specific fax number for the courtroom? Harvard professors must have serious connections.

[@izzycarts]

BenHopkins1000 of course they do

[@MondoBeno]

Dershowitz was hired by OJ's defense team. They must have had permission to receive faxes in the courtoom.

[@LSSYLondon]

Dershowitz always runs his cases from Harvard- he rarely ends up in front of a jury personally. He doesn't need to. He's the brains- not the showman. So yes they always set up a fax for him to get messages to his co -council in the courtroom.

[@loriraymond6789]

Justice system can be a scary place...IF YOU'RE BROKE!!

[@natalieps2387]

It was set up this way dershowitz was on the defense team.but was only there for a possible appeal. He told them he doesnt give up teaching at harvard so he would be working on the sidelines for most of the trial. So they gave him the fax number if he had anything to contribute. It's not like he was a random.sttorney who decided to help he was a hired gun.

[@neelmehra1645]

This inspires creativity when im writing courseworks

[@bensonfang1868]

Damn the paper even has a Harvard letterhead on it.

[@karmatt3098]

Why is he talking to Harvard students like they’re middle school students.

[@ec4221]

Because they paid for their education!

[@iorekby]

Some people are in Harvard because they are incredibly intelligent and hard working. Some people are in Harvard because their investment banker dad's check cleared. There isn't a university in the USA that you can't buy a place in. You can make up your own mind which group of kids he's working with here.

[@coleoneil4312]

Yeah. This is law school. They ar elike in their mid twenties

[@dagobert1234321]

You’d be surprised how law school is not very different than middle school

[@vinnydurham8964]

Fax machine are underrated

[@peegeebeedee7563]

FAX

[@4rct1c9Ic3m4n]

If there's gonna be a media circus you better well be the ring master

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

Genius

[@JL-uo1di]

Dershowitz is a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@LeviBulger]

The guy in the stand looks exactly like BTK.

[@CookieMonsterMC11]

YES! Finally someone who sees it, beside myself haha

[@CookieMonsterMC11]

He would be perfect to play BTK, too bad Fincher stopped doing Mindhunter

[@LeviBulger]

@@CookieMonsterMC11 @Hello there I know right?! It's uncanny how much he looks just like him. I just realized I said "in the stand". Meant to say "on the stand" in my original comment. Not sure if autocorrect or if I was just dumb that night. Anyway, Mindhunter is canceled? That's awful, I didn't know. The while show was leading up to BTK from the beginning. That sucks.

[@CookieMonsterMC11]

@@LeviBulger Sorry to break the bad news, my guy. Yes, it seems like they cancelled the show because Fincher wanted to do the movie Mank instead and they apparently had to release the actors from their contracts, you know legal stuff. I got really bummed out when I first heard about it, I was really looking forward to seeing a 3 season! Btw, the Night Stalker doc on Netflix is pretty good!

[@LeviBulger]

@@CookieMonsterMC11 Aw that's awful. I was wondering why it was taking so long to hear anything new about the show, but just figured it was covid-delayed. Ah well. And yes, I saw that Nightstalker flick. Very well done. I actually kinda like the new Unsolved Mysteries reboot as well, even though some people seem to hate it. I realize it's bit as creepy and cool as the old one with Robert Stack, but it's still pretty good. I think a new season is coming in a few months too.

[@WrongedSports]

Courtney B Vance who played Johnnie was the greatest casting ever. He played Johnnie so well you think this is Johnnie

[@a.demifemiflapo5795]

Now Alan is representing Trump in the impeachment trial loool

[@michaelortiz7534]

Everyone has a price. And it was an automatic win. Even if a 3 yr old had defended trump he would have got off scot free.

[@a.demifemiflapo5795]

@@michaelortiz7534 wdym

[@michaelortiz7534]

a. babatunde The senate was gonna get him off anyways. They all want him to stay president. Everything is so partisan now.

[@a.demifemiflapo5795]

@@michaelortiz7534 Everyone knew he was gonna get acquitted. Now Biden is thrashing him so far lol

[@mrfivegold]

So? It’ll never be ratified.

[@anthonycampos8057]

"If theres gonna be a media circus you better well be the ring master" Doesnt that describe a certain someone in the White House?

[@mrfivegold]

So?

[@Amar7605]

Agreed. Whether you like or hate President Trump, this is an accurate description.

[@anthonycampos8057]

@@mrfivegold so what? Im just saying.

[@mrfivegold]

Anthony Campos and I’m just saying so? As in so what I still gonna wear my MAGA hat.

[@anthonycampos8057]

@@mrfivegold im sorry if i disrespected your Master. Calm down Mr Tightass

[@idicula1979]

American Crime Story did a great from a physiological sense shot showing the American public the deeper images of the case. Although O. J was clearly guilty it made an argument if, seen through the narrowest of lenses of American history and injustice that O.J’s crime could be seen as an injustice on top of an injustice. At its a perfect show to reflect on because the same thing of course around different circumstances could be said around the half a century birth of Israel and how it keeps delaying its recognition of its Palistinians under constant occupation and harassment’s.

[@Ashutt92]

Dershowitz is a fucking genius

[@JL-uo1di]

and a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@anthonycampos8057]

Charlie Runkle

[@JamalWarrenJamalPercyWarren]

The first remote employee

[@ec4221]

Pablo Escobar was here! (Colombian Necktie)!

[@Victor_Trumper]

I for once want to see a legal battle: Lawrence Tribe vs Alan Dershowitz

[@JL-uo1di]

Dershowitz is a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@MarkSmithhhh]

This was an Incredoble season

[@johnnietoetsenbord6125]

A drug cartel in Brentwood? Right. The inspector could've argued about that.

[@henryfox6293]

He said drug gangs too, and people in Brentwood do tons of drugs, so it would make complete sense for there to be drug dealers operating there. Also drug cartels can operate in any area, it doesn’t matter if it’s rich or not. Cochran would’ve made them look like fools for saying something like that

[@joewhitehead3]

@@henryfox6293 People in Brentwood do tons of drugs? I assumed it just Faye Resnick

[@hothotheat3000]

It’s possible. Your skepticism of a drug gang existing there is EXACTLY why I’d put my cartel there, if I had one. Everyone expects Tijuana, not a swanky area. The swanky area is full of miserable, vapid, mentally unwell people who use drugs to escape.

[@soniaperigord2327]

Is this still on Netflix

[@NeonTailzzz]

We make fun of it for being dated now, but fax is honestly an extremely impressive technology for its time.

[@RideMyBMW]

in 2018, we all know on which side of the fence Dipshowitz stands.

[@Kncperseus]

lawyers don't take any sides.

[@ec4221]

He is on the side that pays more money

[@alistairwalker2850]

@@Kncperseus Yes they do. They take the side that they’re paid to take.

[@Victor_Trumper]

There are two reasons why elite lawyers take controversial cases or have controversial clients. 1) Imagine a client who you know Intituitively is guilty, for e.g. - OJ Simpson. Everyone knows he is guilty. Yet by legal jargon ,meticulous understanding of behavioral psychology,court room dynamics and sharp intelligence he overturned the results. That's a remarkable cognitive and legal exercise. The consequent tranquility after winning such a case pure heavenly. 2) Since the client is guilty he/she will pay anything to prove otherwise. That's why every criminal ,drug Lord or even corporations have extremely strong legal team. People like Dershowitz, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign Manager, Dick Cheney have a very clear understanding of human psychology which they use it to benefit them.

[@JL-uo1di]

Dershowitz is a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@jaymansour1726]

David schwimmer has the best performance in this show…absolutely mezmerizing..

[@peegeebeedee7563]

Sequester Be Damned

[@jomartynn3949]

I Don't understand? Someone explain this part

[@georgiasmith64]

Technics on reasonable doubt

[@kingj_137mc3]

God have mercy on u through Christ

[@Marinho..]

Way to go

[@270MOX]

The one who is being interviewed looks a lot like BTK killer

[@brandonolson5939]

Dawg I thought the exact same thing. The resemblance is crazy.

[@briansamuel246]

It's Frank Sobotka

[@DavidDunn81]

Is that Rob Schneider playing Alan Dershowitz. ?

[@angelaflowers-davis1120]

ᕼE ᗯᗩᔕ ᕼEᖇ ᗪIᐯOᖇᑕE ᒪᗩᗯYEᖇ

[@stark976]

That's Evan Handler (the actor who is playing Alan Dershowitz)

[@matthewplaysgames4752]

@@stark976 Is that Chandler from Friends playing Robert Kardashian?

[@Joe_Parmesan]

@@matthewplaysgames4752 it's Ross (David Schwimmer), not Chandler (Matthew Perry). Right idea though (Not totally sure if you were being sarcastic, already knowing it's David Schwimmer/Ross)

[@ec4221]

@@matthewplaysgames4752 yes

[@nmarmi7363]

I don’t get this part can anyone explain

[@Joe_Parmesan]

Dershowitz sent the fax for Johnny to create an alternative narrative for what happened the night of the murders. The narrative ties in to Nicole Brown (and Ron Goldman's?) history with drugs. It's a move to add reasonable doubt and get the jury to at least think about another possibility

[@dickrichards9650]

@Dhi Mancini Two fold. They do know, and are willing to act as they don't, ergo, planting suspicion on the investigation. Win, win.

[@dickrichards9650]

I re-read your comment, and you had already made my point.

[@billybutcher4995]

Charlie runkle

[@myebbad]

In real life, he did know what the Columbian necktie was

[@nattyps3160]

It's funny how Cochrane didn't even think of a Columbian necktie until dershowitz faxed it so him acting all knowing about it is sorta funny b/c the det didn't know it either . That's how much this scene shows the games people play & dershowitz teaching students this dishonesty is sad. He is right that no matter how much u sequester a jury through conjugal visits w/ loved ones they'll hear everything anyway that they weren't supposed to hear in the courtroom. That's why trials should really not have cameras in there. The reason a jury is removed is for things they aren't ever supposed to hear or base opinions on. That's why w/o the cameras lawyers will purposely say things even if they get stricken from the record u can't un ring the bell. To think Nicole was killed by a Columbian cartel is so ridiculous. Their theory was Nicole was killed cause they thought it was Faye who allegedly had a cocaine debt. If the Columbian cartel is gonna kill u their gonna just put a bullet in ur head. These murders w/ a knife were clearly personal. They showed a person in a seriously scary rage. To kill someone w/ a knife is someone who personally knows the victim. Ron it's est was killed b/c the murderer didn't know he was gonna show up w/ Nicole moms glasses. He had tons of defensive wounds so the killer obviously wasn't gonna let Ron get away & tell anyone who he saw so that's why he was stabbed literally 80x b/c he put up a serious fight but sadly he was no match for a person in a serious rage weidking a knife plus he couldn't get away as he was cornered into the fence which became a killing cage.

[@gossipgirl3015]

OJ did it

[@notmytruthTHEtruth]

If this shit is true it's just another time Dershowitz showed his true colors as a fucking lizard.

[@santangelogaia19]

Being a lizard is the best compliment for a lawyer 😎😎 DEFENCE >>> PROSECUTORS IN THIS CASE (and I believe he is guilty but legally the prosecutors were soo bad)

[@JL-uo1di]

Dershowitz is a pedophile according to Virginia Roberts who said he was one of her clients at the Epstein Compound. When will he get his day in court?

[@whataboutrob442]

Still - guilty 🚫