R.I.P. Johnnie Cochran
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AllHiphop.com wrote:
Cochran once mentioned that his biggest disappointment came when his client Elmer "Geronimo Ji Jaga" Pratt, a Nationalist activist, Vietnam War veteran and godfather to Tupac Shakur, was convicted of murder in 1972.
Authorities alleged that Pratt robbed and shot a young white couple on a tennis court in 1968.
The woman died, and her husband survived to identify Pratt in a line-up two years after the shooting.
A judge in Orange County overturned Pratt's conviction in 1997 after he served 27 years in prison, a day Cochran described to the Los Angeles Times as the happiest in his career.
"Johnny would be one the attorneys that we would get to assist the Panthers. He's like my brother. We are like family members," Geronimo told AllHipHop.com. "Johnny was always there. …Johnny was instrumental in a lot of tactic. He is a media personality."
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=4245
Cochran once mentioned that his biggest disappointment came when his client Elmer "Geronimo Ji Jaga" Pratt, a Nationalist activist, Vietnam War veteran and godfather to Tupac Shakur, was convicted of murder in 1972.
Authorities alleged that Pratt robbed and shot a young white couple on a tennis court in 1968.
The woman died, and her husband survived to identify Pratt in a line-up two years after the shooting.
A judge in Orange County overturned Pratt's conviction in 1997 after he served 27 years in prison, a day Cochran described to the Los Angeles Times as the happiest in his career.
"Johnny would be one the attorneys that we would get to assist the Panthers. He's like my brother. We are like family members," Geronimo told AllHipHop.com. "Johnny was always there. …Johnny was instrumental in a lot of tactic. He is a media personality."
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=4245
Fuck you guys.
I can't believe white America, they still can't get over OJ Simpson. Guess what? He wasn't acquitted by Cochran, he was acquitted by a jury. The Simpsons and Browns still got $33 million out of Juice anyway.
You dumbass kids think that's all Johnnie was about. Do you know how he built his reputation? He made his career fighting police brutality. Johnnie Cochran was a friend to everyone who was a victim of society, not just the rich. And not even just the black - remember the white dude who got pulled out of his truck and beaten by a mob during the LA riots? Cochran represented him. He worked to free Geronimo Pratt for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Johnnie Cochran was a great man and all you guys can do is make jokes because you're still mad that for once someone outside of the system tangled with it and won. Fucking get over it and pay your respects to the man, or stay out of this thread.
This is why this board can't be shit.
I can't believe white America, they still can't get over OJ Simpson. Guess what? He wasn't acquitted by Cochran, he was acquitted by a jury. The Simpsons and Browns still got $33 million out of Juice anyway.
You dumbass kids think that's all Johnnie was about. Do you know how he built his reputation? He made his career fighting police brutality. Johnnie Cochran was a friend to everyone who was a victim of society, not just the rich. And not even just the black - remember the white dude who got pulled out of his truck and beaten by a mob during the LA riots? Cochran represented him. He worked to free Geronimo Pratt for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Johnnie Cochran was a great man and all you guys can do is make jokes because you're still mad that for once someone outside of the system tangled with it and won. Fucking get over it and pay your respects to the man, or stay out of this thread.
This is why this board can't be shit.