I was floored. They disregarded the judge's orders. I can tell you that you will not see the prosecution be as complacent as we have been for the rest of this trial. This was not the typical first week of a murder trial. Consider the bloody socks, he says, talking fast while cheering on Brent.
Nobody notices any blood.
Two weeks later the socks are looked at by two of our experts, along with the head of the L.A.P.D. lab. Nobody notices any blood. Not until August, claims Shapiro, is blood discovered on the socks - lots of it, plenty to run a DNA check. Shapiro hints that when some of Simpson's blood was drawn on the day of his arrest, a bit seems to have disappeared. Johnnie Cochran, meanwhile, along with co-counsel Carl Douglas, is at his Wilshire Boulevard office overlooking Hancock Park late into the night.