But that's faulty reasoning, says Patricia Williams. She teaches at Columbia Law School, and some of her classes deal with the intersection or race and the law. She thought the prosecution did, in her words, a "wretched" job of presenting its case.
Columbia's Patricia Williams says Simpson's now-infamous ride down Interstate 405 while he held a gun to his temple and threatened suicide which was covered live for hours and the televised court proceedings devolved from news into entertainment. Both helped pave the way for the reality TV that
Instead, they saw a legal soap opera, as both sides played to the camera in what became a mesmerizing episode of legal theater. "They focused on all the wrong things," laments Patricia Williams. "Marcia Clark's hair, the Dream Team's matching ties all that was distracting from the very serious thi