History Series / ThePeopleVOJSimpson

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Happens multiple times, as the case was infamously Stranger Than Fiction:

** When a female juror is discovered to have once been the victim of domestic abuse years before, Clark wants her dismissed. Bailey tries to argue that in 1988, when the crime took place, a husband legally couldn't be found guilty of raping his own wife. Even Ito just stares at him in utter disbelief and disgust.

** Even though OJ is acquitted, let's not forget he was held "liable" for hefty (punitive and compensatory) damages in a civil lawsuit brought by Nicole Brown's and Ron Goldman's families. Hefty damages which led him to bankruptcy[[note]]he however has never gone to court on this because he's "judgment-proof", i.e. the assets he has cannot be garnished to pay off the debt, and, besides, even if they did they would cover a microscopic part of that debt[[/note]] and of which the victims' families saw very little so far (and almost certainly that's all they'll see). Goldman's family, however, have launched lawsuits to charge that debt every time a new thing that can be used to pay for the debt shows up (like they did with the book ''If I Did It'', the copyright of which is now theirs) so OJ never forgets about the son he murdered. (Nicole's family, meanwhile, don't care as much about the lawsuit as Goldman's, with one of them actually auctioning off their compensation rights on Website/{{eBay}}.)

* PowerWalk: The Dream Team perform a version of this when they first walk into the courtroom for OJ's trial, led by Johnny Cochran, and set to Above the Law's "Black Superman".

** In Episode 2, F. Lee Bailey says to Bob Shapiro something to the tune of "this is going to make us [the lawyers] huge". Not only was he, along with Johnnie Cochran, the only well-known personality in OJ Simpson's defense team[[note]]Bailey, for instance, successfully defended Patty Hearst, and he also has a huge string of movie and TV (mainly game shows and news commentary) appearances[[/note]], he would be the one to decline the hardest after the Simpson trial. He was disbarred in 2001 in Florida and in 2003 in Massachusetts after embezzling stocks from a pharmaceutical company that was supposed to be handed over to the IRS into paying for personal expenses in the criminal trial of drug dealer Claude [=DuBoc=] where he was the defense attorney, got bankrupt, and went to Maine where he now owns a business consulting firm, operating above his girlfriend's nail salon. He has unsuccessfully tried to enter the Maine Bar several times. He's also the last of The Juice's defenders, having written a lengthy essay defending his innocence.

** A defense team that, while not above race-baiting and manipulating the public, are doing their jobs of giving their client a good defense. Johnnie Cochran, despite being one of the quintessential[[AmoralAttorney sleazy lawyers]], is motivated by his experiences with discrimination.

** A defense team that, while not above race-baiting and manipulating the public, are doing their jobs of giving their client a good defense. Johnnie Cochran, despite being one of the quittisential [[AmoralAttorney sleazy lawyers]], is motivated by his experiences with discrimination.