![]() ![]() It became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, which made it easier for Shapiro and his team - with the media aiding and abetting - to convince jurors this was more than an ordinary crime of passion. The seeds of a “not guilty” verdict were planted on Jthe case was suddenly so much bigger than a double murder. People were focused on O.J., marveling at the spectacle and wondering when and how it was going to end. Who could possibly think about Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman during that chase? But in that moment, Shapiro recognizes that O.J. And though it became the first of many cultural Rorschach tests on O.J.’s guilt or innocence, no lawyer would ever advise his or her client to become a fugitive from justice - it simply doesn’t seem like the behavior of a stable, grief-stricken man. Two decades later, the Bronco chase remains bizarre and surreal. As it happened on June 17, 1994, the rolling standoff paralyzed the entirety of L.A., cleared the freeway like a Hollywood set, and mesmerized Americans across the country, who watched it unfold for hours on television. ![]() That certainly seems to be a real option for O.J., who is sitting in the back of the white Bronco with a gun to his head, effectively neutralizing any effort to pursue him more aggressively. After reading what appeared to be his suicide note - signed with a deranged/whimsical smiley face in the O - Shapiro and Robert Kardashian both assumed O.J.’s disappearance was the prelude to his end. So says Robert Shapiro after discovering, to his surprise, that his client has not killed himself and is currently leading the police on a slow-speed chase up and down a Los Angeles freeway.
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