Johnnie Cochran’s event photo reveals hidden “OJ DID” card

Cochran’ s speech reassured the enthusiastic audience: “In the Simpson matter, we just did what you do every day’ —that is, defend their clients by any means necessary and chalk up a bunch of billable hours in the process—and he got a standing ovation. In the afterglow of his speech, colleagues came up to Cochran to shake his hand and get in a little banter. One well-wisher shared this joke: “If [prosecutor] Chris Darden spent as much time trying to nail O.J. Simpson as he did trying to nail [prosecutor] Marcia Clark, he might’ ve won the case.” The other defense attorneys within hearing distance all had a good laugh at that one. Dr. Schoenfeld joined the line of lawyers waiting to have photos taken of themselves standing alongside Cochran. When it was Schoenfeld’ s turn, Nancy focused her camera. For this particular occasion, Schoenfeld had stashed a hand-printed card underneath the standard, plastic-encased ID lapel card. As in the previous poses, Cochran and Schoenfeld put their arms around each other, although they were looking, not at each other, but straight ahead and smiling at the camera. Thus, Cochran didn’ t notice how, just before Nancy snapped their picture, Schoenfeld subtly managed to pull away the ID card and reveal the hand-printed card, which declared, in large printed letters, “OJ. DID HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015190