By Bonnie McGrath
Exactly a year ago to the day, Cochran had been cross-examining Los Angeles police detective Tom Lang. He asked him about his knowledge of throat slashings in drug-related killings, suggesting through his leading questions that Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman were killed by drug dealers, not his client.
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“He is a great trial lawyer,” said Maloney, adding that he came from San Antonio because he admires so much the job Cochran did for Simpson. “It was advocacy at its apex. Indisputably it’s the most competent job I’ve ever seen, and I had to tell him so.”
“George, you were smoother, more moralistic.”
“He loves sports–and everyone came up to him wanting to shake his hand, and they asked for autographs. I was scared, but we’ve been very accepted in Chicago,” she said.
Someone asked whether they ever did it to Marcia Clark. She stopped laughing and said no. They thought Marcia Clark was just fine, she said. Just fine.
