Recipe for a Great Closing Argument, by Gerald F. Uelmen and Johnnie Cochran

A collaboration between O.J. attorneys Gerald F. Uelmen and Johnnie Cochran resulted in this "recipe" for a great closing argument, featuring excerpts from Cochran's closing argument in People v. O.J. Simpson.

[@depressedkermit5337]

OJ sitting there watching his master lawyer at work. Thinking maybe shit I didn’t do it.

[@CareBear731]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sl33pyn4y3]

Hilarious 😂😂

[@jeremythevirushuang6303]

Johnny C. And his team were indeed the dream team. Masterful and without a doubt made Marcia Clark and her team looked like a bunch of fresh lawyer out of law school. From the get-go the prosecution team has no chance.

[@JoefromNJ1]

really? so if there are 12 white people on that jury oj goes free?

[@imadbasayev8541]

@@JoefromNJ1 So because many white people are racist and more likely to convict an innocent black man that means his team didn't do a good job?

[@newmoon54]

Hey Huang 'em high ..... are you that stupid, that you don't see the racist bullshite just spewing from Cochran's mouth?!?!?! Proves my point,, that people are all, every frikken person on earth, ABSOLUTELY FULL O' SHITE~!~!~!~

[@taoman85]

She had no choice with the way the LAPD behaved. Years later I heard Marsha say that she knew she'd lost the case immediately because of the racism in the LAPD. I lived in LA for decades. It's virtually impossible for a Black man during that time to live in LA during Chief Gates tenure to not have a gun pulled on you; even if it's a driving interaction.

[@philipwilliams1754]

@@JoefromNJ1 -They would vote not guilty.

[@leejohnstone2387]

Your watching a master lawyer at work. Enjoy the ride

[@1999glock]

A mater clown playing the race card to a bunch or moronic racist jurors not about to convict a black man post Rodney King of just killing a white broad.

[@denisejohnson3578]

@@1999glockAhhhhh, cry, cry, cry how many whites have done the same? fuck that we shall over come shit.

[@jamesmay2878]

@@1999glock A lawyer defends his client to the best of his ability. That is what he did. As for the "race card" the biggest bombshell in this trial was not Fuhrman or race it was in fact how poorly forensic evidence was collected that was heavily relied upon to prosecute OJ. If they had followed the right procedures there's no way he would have been found innocent.

[@1999glock]

James, OJ Simpson was not found innocent. The forensic collection was not the issue, race was. No matter how it was "collected" it was incontrovertible. The defense tried (successfully) to confuse an ignorant jury that "flawed collection" equals flawed evidence. Not so. Any jury in the county of LA would have convicted him, except the one he got.

[@alfeinstein4168]

@@jamesmay2878 Johnnie was a great lawyer, agree, but the race card was the biggest bombshell played in this case. OJ's lawyers insinuated {they had to} that some of the evidence was planted {there was a shit load of it} because OJ was a black man married to a white woman. They are pulling bones out of the dirt that is thousands of years old and extracting viable DNA. They could have sneezed and farted all over the forensic evidence in this case but it would still be OJ.

[@AxmedBahjad]

Johnnie Cochran is a master. His storytelling is masterful.

[@roc7880]

rule no 1 of a closing argument, do not be boring. so a great closing is brief and concise, not long and stuffy.

[@skyborne80]

If Johnny Cochran was alive today, he'd be the perfect person to conduct one of those masterclasses that were being advertised on KZbin a while back, this time on lawyering.

[@roc7880]

I would have borrowed money from friends and family to take any of his classes. And I took some law classes for free.

[@hausofnylla]

this here is a man in his zone.. God rest his soul.

[@mericanbadass5299]

Bars.. He was the best at what he did!

[@johndoughfmg]

🔥🔥🔥

[@ammarateem2105]

Guilty or not, the defence team killed the prosecution so bad even if it was an all white jury of Karen’s it would’ve been the same Verdict!

[@markb6863]

Lol...yup

[@okaunis]

@@markb6863 "Yup". You certainly sound intelligent. "Yup". Return to your cave.

[@flyyygirl87]

Look at how despondent Marcia and Chris are as Johnnie eats their lunch over and over again. EPIC.

[@pablohugo95]

I think Cochcran ate their lunch, dinner and dessert and left them the tab for them to pay. Lol

[@sungkim1933]

“I am still Johnnie Cochran with a knit cap.” Lol.

[@alfeinstein4168]

That knit cap was found between two murder victims butchered bodies. Not sure I could have slid it on my head the way Cochran does and be so funny. Your more than welcome too laugh about it though. LOL.

[@philipwilliams1754]

@@alfeinstein4168 --The knit cap had no blood on it,it was found under plants that had blood on them.

[@alfeinstein4168]

@@philipwilliams1754 There may have been no blood on it but it did have hairs on it identical to Simpsons. Your just trying to knit cap-pick the shit out of a murder scene to find anything that might exonerate OJ . Cops didn't kill these people, nor did detectives or lab techs, they were just doing their job. OJ did this, get over it.

[@alfeinstein4168]

@@jamesmay2878 No I'm just trying to be real, no need to insult me. It just makes me sick the way some people try to find any human error or conspiracy in a shit load of evidence and circumstances just so they can think their hero isn't a murderer. OJ Simpson did this, let's move on.

[@philipwilliams1754]

@@alfeinstein4168 ---The knit cap came from Nicoles' condo.There were no testimony that the hair's were identical.Rons' time card showed he punched out at 10.30.Watch Bettina Rasmussen testimony,clearly Nicole were still moving past midnight.The glove demonstration were charade,they could've extracted skin cells thus DNA.They can still do it today.

[@iyiolawilliams6330]

Hmmmmmmm. You are just glaring and viewing a brilliant and a very charismatic advocate. Maximum respect to Cochran.

[@errrr_001]

This is one of my favorite videos ever, if I was a juror I would be doubting that OJ did it after this exhibition

[@georgehudson5019]

Yeah and that's jut part of it , that closing argument lasted 8 hours 2 to 3 days long

[@thebettingpublicsportsshow]

The more these KZbin videos on the case and watching the People v. OJ Simpson, the more I realize why OJ beat the case. Clark and Darden were not ready to deal with aggressive defense tactics. They were used to putrid public defenders and people with law degrees, not lawyers or advocates.

[@Saskiequelle]

3:10 OJ thinking ”Damn he good”

[@VGMDK1999]

“Damn maybe I didn’t do it”

[@fbncook]

"I'm really bout to get off on this shit....it's lit"

[@TrueTrife]

@@fbncook 😂

[@victorpena3129]

@@VGMDK1999 haha Cochran had him convinced he was going to play golf

[@tommorris3035]

Cochran and his team was the dream team!!!!! -wow 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@keithcook4537]

Marcia already knew she screwed when they hired Johnny

[@NHBSQ871]

This guy could talk a cat off a fish cart....

[@natedoggg2002]

Master Lawyer!

[@1999glock]

Bullshit...... Shuckin and Jivin to an ignorant jury. One of the juror was later asked or it that "axed" about all the blood evidence and replied "Lots ah people gots blood"....

[@johndoughfmg]

@@1999glockshut up dork, stay mad

[@Walter_E_Kurtz]

God Bless Johnny Cochran, a true master at his craft. Rest in peace sir.

[@tekentlau4492]

Direct hell for him, maybe he can save himself from hell and trying to convince satan that they male mistake on him... He knew oj was guilty

[@Walter_E_Kurtz]

@@tekentlau4492 I can't make a good argument for the role of an Attorney defending clients who are obviously guilty. Especially when the circumstances of the crimes are hideous. His job is to navigate his client through the legal system and negotiate the best outcome for his client. Johnny Cochran was a master at his craft and I admire him for it. I don't know if you are in the US, but some of the prosecutors here would share the same hot place in hell for the crimes they commit against not guilty and guilty citizens. I could go on with examples but I'm sure you understand. I respect your opinion about Johnny Cochran though, I could make an argument agreeing with you as well.

[@johndoughfmg]

@@tekentlau4492he was doing his job and he did his job extremely well. Quit crying

[@song9119]

Twins of deception!! Omg!

[@jayceewriter7826]

Staggering performance, he is absolutely convincing and a brilliant oratory

[@lulz7163]

was - died of brain cancer.

[@jayceewriter7826]

Ain't nuttin' yeah now he is but I’m talking about this speech, at that time. So quit

[@lulz7163]

@@jayceewriter7826 If I don't quit - you must acquit 🤷‍♂️

[@thespeedofthought8206]

@@jayceewriter7826 It just made sense. When you look at how Barry Scheck dismantled the prosecutions case and put the LADP in the midst of the killings with the science and DNA it was obvious that the LAPD killed those people because the A-B Blood under Nichole's fingernails was not a match for her, Ron Goldman or OJ. Case closed right there. Once you add the fact they found Caucasian male hair inside the glove. The EDTA preservative that was only present in OJ's blood.. The list goes on and on. They found blood that had not been degraded from June 13th to July 3rd which is impossible. That suggest the blood was planted. And the police were trying to cover their tracks in the killings by contaminating the crime scene and planting evidence against OJ and it was proven in a Court of Law. Which explains why they had cameras and microphones and most of all OJ himself during the second time he was set up in Las Vegas. Even though he was there to retrieve his own property.. But that's America for you.. Sore losers.. Ask Micheal Jackson.. Oh you can't.. Some sore loser had him killed.

[@Solitude47152]

It was Showtime

[@tatane3243]

RIP great great lawyer of our time

[@Areyoumadnott]

IMSPAZ have you seen the shit people are doing now?

[@imadbasayev8541]

Him and Bailey

[@newyorkersliverentfree]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ARose47]

@@John-ru4gz You people are so predictable

[@jezzaw.6355]

RIP Johnny Cochran you were a master of the constitution miss you

[@johndoughfmg]

He was completely LOCKED IN. Sit back and watch the master work. RIP legend

[@TheBorzoilover]

Wow!, i remember these closing arguments as i watched this case right from the beginning years back, Johnny Cochrane awesome but not forgetting Barry Scheck with his closing argument speech both so impressive, if i at that time had been on the jury i would have voted not guilty, as the years have gone on i became not so sure , but listening to this master defence lawyer again i know why i thought not guilty at the time...RIP Johnny Cochrane.

[@lemondishonor7736]

Johnnie Cochran was the king of reasonable doubt.

[@owlfeatherliving]

When Johnny said "Beeper" I had a 90's flashback instantly. 😂

[@covergirl7086]

Malaki Akecheta 😁🤣🤣🤣

[@covergirl7086]

It’s amazing we’re still looking at this case from about 24 years ago... wow

[@owlfeatherliving]

@@covergirl7086 yes i know right.. We cannot stop lol.

[@lilvick89]

I just paused it to remember what at deeper look like 😂😭

[@victorpena3129]

@@covergirl7086 legends like these are once in a generation

[@MikeJones-cs9ge]

Twins of deception. Classic phrase

[@iyiolawilliams6330]

Who is here in 2021?

[@harrydrasutis9083]

He doesn't run into the wall--he knocks on the wall. Cochran makes the story sound silly.

[@danny90099]

Oj sit in the BG thinking . Damn this guy make a good point i might not killer after all

[@stevenrichards3699]

" Why'd you put the balm on? Who told you to put the balm on? I didn't tell you to put the balm on ! Do yo know what a balm will do !" That's egregious, that's preposterous, outrageous !

[@tonynotstated695]

I was starting law school at around the time of this closing and watched closely. During this closing, even OJ believed that he didn't kill anyone after Johnny was done.

[@IndustrialMindedArtist]

That is a master at his craft!

[@dontaeward34]

Think O.J. was guilty but this guy was pretty good

[@chiefzackery6651]

What ultimately won this case was the prosecution's need to take 9 months to give their timeline. If someone's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, it shouldn't take almost an entire year of a jury in isolation to prove it

[@markb6863]

Good point

[@briankane3905]

Johnnie Cochran would have made a fine preacher.

[@victorpena3129]

I’m sure he picked up a lot from preachers growing up

[@mrmrmr5495]

"This is a classic example." Damn, got em.

[@ativiejonathan3705]

Astute lawyer

[@maxxdahl6062]

He was a damned good lawyer.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@Nicole Jessica Why? Doing his job?

[@maxxdahl6062]

@Nicole Jessica Are you really trying to compare defense attourneys to nazis? LOL

[@maxxdahl6062]

@Nicole Jessica Instead of blaming him, might you not blame the absolutely horrible prosecution?

[@dixiedeed4918]

Johnny. So dam smart

[@simssaber7503]

Cochran kicked ass

[@andyspencer5404]

Greatest attorney of all time

[@midshipsport]

How much did he invoice O.J for all this?

[@midshipsport]

@Daryl Mixan wow in '95?! God Damn!!!

[@midshipsport]

@Daryl Mixan but did he get the payment?

[@TDKiller415]

Johnnie Cochran: Mark Fuhrman is the next Adolf Hitler. Donald Trump: Hold my beer 🍺🍺

[@vinnydurham8964]

Shut up

[@TDKiller415]

@@vinnydurham8964 Fuck off, Nazi

[@josipdolibasic4143]

rly mr npc

[@josephgonzales8897]

Ha ha good one........even though I'm a Trump supporter....

[@TDKiller415]

@@josephgonzales8897 Then fuck off and don't answer my comments, any Trump supporter is a useless piece of human garbage to me.

[@JConnel]

Master Lawyer!!

[@tobak952]

Cochran was brilliant... but he also had a realy easy job. The prosecution didn't have a case.

[@davidalexander6718]

I don't know why people criticized wat Johnny said.he is lawyers he doin wat he is paid to do and that's make sure his client get off.his job is to prove his innocence weather he did it or not

[@alvalankerofficial]

I love F Lee Bailey, he worked in Freehold NJ, not far from where I live, years ago. Him and Johnnie were just amazing in this case.

[@trose5507]

@1999glock *YOU'RE SO RIGHT ABOUT THAT!* Emmett Till's murderers admitted the killings and an *ALL WHITE-MALE JURY* found Emmett Till's killers' innocent. The liar who started the whole thing lived until her late 80s; may she rest in piss! O.J. is innocent! Let the dead rest as did the defense.🌹

[@jdncoke2]

weather they got it right or wrong, the dream team were very talented

[@davidalexander6718]

I agree

[@TDKiller415]

"He has a rather large head." OJ must've been like "Yeah, thanks a lot, you old git......"

[@kenginger8051]

The year JC died, I was a young lawyer and I had a civil hearing coming up against his Louisiana firm. I couldn't wait to meet him (although I knew it wasn't likely to be him actually there). Then he died and I gave the hearing away to another lawyer. RIP legend.

[@newmoon54]

TWO PEOPLE ALIVE ........ KNOW WHO KILLED O.J'S WIFE AND GOLDMAN .................... O.J. ................ AND ................................................ ~~ G~O~D ~~ ......... THAT'S THE TRIAL O.J. HAS TO DEFEND HIMSELF~!~

[@johnperrigo6474]

If you believe it wasn't OJ who knocked into Kato's wall, then who was it? Never tried to explain that.

[@sinistan1002]

just imagine if it had been a rape case, if the condom doesn't fit you must acquit 😄

[@lagimmediafiles6478]

Make his life a Movie Will Smith Pls

[@brandonpickens7852]

Yea he has a book. I would love to see the movie

[@IraHayesIraHayes]

Johnny Cochran...almost, ALMOST as good as Jackie Chiles from Seinfeld

[@emc1239]

😂

[@archangelvvv]

Go Johnny Go!

[@sumertheory]

Nike=MJ, Reebok=OJ

[@dandude5196]

Even his Bronco was WHITE! Think About THAT SHIT! (said like Dave Chapelle)

[@truthoutmedia]

The God of the illiterate

[@johndoughfmg]

Just put my fries in the bag McDonald’s drive through worker

[@normanhayward3990]

why is his nose so bright?

[@RoyalBloodBath936]

Who is here in 2024😂

[@MadamWhipAss]

Me.

[@hughhaefner5486]

All of the world never sold him those Bruno maglio shoes. Until the national enquierer publishes photos of him wearing them a couple months after her was acquitted. Cochran got lucky there. Or big money OJ paid millions for them not to come forward.

[@maryrose8478]

It was the prosecutions job to find evidence of him owning these shoes. How did the national enquirer find the photos and the prosecution didn't? Btw I know OJ is guilty but the defense did a better job than the prosecution.

[@brandonpickens7852]

it took to long for them to find pictures of the shoes. I believe the picture was doctored. They did not have any proof that he ever purchased those shoes

[@hughhaefner5486]

Someone please fix my spellchecker. My fingers are too large. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[@alg190]

What is Darden thinking at 3:26?

[@AnoymousUnionSoldier]

Hes thinking about Marcia

[@davidalexander6718]

He thinking that he gotta rethink his speech

[@nickmad887]

the master

[@dingus622]

He so good he could of defended Hitler n got him of free

[@josephgonzales8897]

Cochran is good but he lost me when he said "Stop this cover up", "Stop this cover up"......"if you don't, who will".......it just wasn't convincing to me......

[@sankhawkulathantille]

It was convincing to the jurors. Maybe OJ would be in jail if Cochran was focused on convincing you. 😂

[@brandonpickens7852]

by any stretch of the imagination. By law you would have had to aquit him. There were way too many holes in prosecution case. toooooooooooooo many

[@Syphaxx5]

OJ & the Supreme Team

[@josepuro2796]

Johnnie draws you in then 💥

[@nicole5900]

6:50 be a weaver

[@mvfc7637]

No references to the “Chewbacca defence???”......I am disappoint

[@mitchcumstein142]

Johnny says "there is no evidence that OJ Simpson had ANY Bruno Magli shoes ever." Well, obviously the dozens of photos from the civil trial proved this wrong, but even during the criminal trial the defense team (as acknowledged by F. Lee Bailey) knew that Simpson had Bruno Magli slippers in his house (a different model than the crime scene shoe). OJ clearly liked the brand.

[@victorpena3129]

Argue everything to the point they are so beat down they don’t even have the energy to argue easy points. Mental warfare 101

[@mtdouthit1291]

He’s lying, OJ owned those type of shoes

[@alexandrodisla6285]

If he doesn’t fit, you must acquit !!!

[@NapoleonSolo61]

Simpson had a dream team of professional con artists

[@brandonpickens7852]

if so the prosecution case made them look easy. almost everything they did had a reasonable doubt. everything.

[@davidalexander6718]

If u ever in trouble u would want someone like him to make sure u alright

[@carydavidhoffson6014]

The hat and the gloves have nothing to do with the murder or having them on or off OJ. Attack his wife a number of times and had a bad attitude and thinks her death is funny

[@TDKiller415]

A wise man once said: "Every now and again, a false God comes along, and the rest follow like blind sheep." Well, we've had false Gods like Johnnie Cochran and Donald Trump 😅 If that man were alive today he'd be laughing his head off at the majority of humanity.

[@liselasalle5638]

What a clown. If the jury was not from the mental poverty program and already on OJ's side, he would have been laughed out of court. Not that Marcia and Darden did a better job. It was a circus.

[@giftndor9511]

Lise LaSalle why would you say such about another human being, so much hate

[@brandonpickens7852]

ok so jury is still supposed to convict if prosecution and evidence has holes in it. so that means just because you think he did it you should convict. thats not how it works. thank God you didnt make the rules

[@liselasalle5638]

@@brandonpickens7852 Remember the juror who said afterwards that they voted not guilty as revenge for the Rodney King violence? He would have left a video of the murder and they would have acquitted.

[@GoddessRachel]

Get over it!!!

[@liselasalle5638]

@@GoddessRachel Get over what? It is a comment in the comment section. Not a therapy session.

[@LB-pg3no]

Isnt it funny....all who defended oj except f lee bailey, died aweful deaths!!!!

[@G1I2A3N4N4H5S6]

L B the same.thing would have happened even if they didnt support oj .

[@jthejeweler85]

@@G1I2A3N4N4H5S6 Shapiro isnt dead. He went on to create legal zoom and make hundreds of millions.

[@Haddonfield63]

So what about the people in everyday life who defend innocent people who can’t defend themselves who die horrible deaths? What are you trying to say?

[@Clyde177]

Who are the ALL?

[@lulz7163]

@@Haddonfield63 he's trying hard to believe that there is a higher power that brought justice - lol. Hell is on earth: this world is run by evil and so is the key to success.

[@jetfan1535]

Johnnie Cochran the professional Liar lawyer who saved OJ Simpson at least for a few years.

[@jetfan1535]

That was very witty. Surprised coming from someone like you!!

[@mikesmith6662]

Not Guilty

[@brandonpickens7852]

Cohran did save oj, the holes in the case did. any smart lawyer could have done similar. there were tooooooooooo many holes plus a raist cop that found evidence. one who in the past admitted to making up things to arrest black males......... ummmm