School to be Named After Johnnie Cochran
Los Angeles middle school previously named for the plantation of a slaveowning President to be renamed in honor of the greatest lawyer of the 20th century:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles middle school attended by high-profile attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will be renamed in his honor, officials said.My Comments:
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the 1,900-student Mt. Vernon Middle School after the attorney best known for representing O.J. Simpson.
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Besides Simpson, Cochran's celebrity client list included football great Jim Brown, who he defended on rape and assault charges, actor Todd Bridges, who faced attempted murder charges, rapper Tupac Shakur on a weapons charge, rapper Snoop Dogg on a murder charge and rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs on gun and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub shooting.
... and lest we forget, as an anonymous commenter pointed out, Cochran defended the "gloved one", Michael Jackson, on child molestation charges.
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:26 AM
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In a related story, the city announced that the tiny image of a cross currently found on the city's seal will be replaced by a tiny glove in honor of Cochran.
"The glove will remind us for centuries to come not only of Mr. Cochran's stellar work on the O.J. case, but also of his often-overlooked representation of Michael Jackson in 1993," a city spokeshuman said.
[Seriously, Mr. Cochran died last year of a brain tumor. Remember him and his family in your prayers.]
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