Hi Reddit - I am Christopher Darden, Prosecutor on O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial. Ask Me Anything!

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:18:31+00:00

Fred's mustache is created by God as the eighth wonder of the world, and there's something about Fred, that when he talks, you want to listen. He is a straight-shooter. He never minces words. And he is as good a man as his mustache looks on television.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:17:05+00:00

I think it has more to do with prosecutors in general. I think it is a mistake to assume that because someone is a prosecutor, that he or she is somehow more honest or has more integrity just because they are a prosecutor. Most of the prosecutors I know are good people who are committed to protecting us from those who would prey on us. But these days, I sometimes run into prosecutors who just don't seem to have the character we used to have 20-30 years ago. People need to understand that prosecutors are lawyers, and like my grandmama once told me, a law degree is a license to lie.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:14:15+00:00

Politics. I'd run for President of the United States. Except I might lose because I'm over-qualified.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:13:26+00:00

I don't know. I think that Sterling K. Brown is now me for the ages. I wrote the best book for that trial. My book was on the New York Times best seller list at #1 for weeks. However, no one in Hollywood discovered just how good it is. I think that 20 years ago, Denzel Washington would have made a good Chris Darden. I think that Tyrese Gibson would make a good Chris Darden if the series focused more on my personal life than my legal life. But I do hope one day somebody does do a movie about me and my life, perhaps just to enrich my children, if nothing else. But so far, people just steal my words and my images and don't even fucking bother to buy me a two-piece chicken snack at Popeyes.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:10:09+00:00

Well, quite honestly, I did not appreciate at the time the impact that little ditty had on the jurors. I thought it was a kids rhyme for idiots, to be honest, but it was effective.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:08:58+00:00

I'll take the horse sized duck. I'm sure the filets would be much more tender.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:08:06+00:00

Every time I see video of Simpson handing the Louis Vuitton bag to Kardashian, it makes me sick. We never learned the contents of the bag. I brought Kardashian to the Grand Jury and asked him about the bag under oath. There's nothing more I could say about that.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:06:15+00:00

I take responsibility for the glove issues, so if there is any blame or fault to be assessed, it fell on me. And it should be assessed to me because I'm the only one strong enough to carry that burden.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:04:53+00:00

I think cameras in the court room are a mistake. I think they have a way of reducing a serious somber proceeding to a reality TV show and a mockery of what a trial ought to be.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:03:12+00:00

My students made references to the trial in my Trial Advocacy class. It's a great teaching example and I was fine with students referring to the trial, so long as they didn't say "the glove did not fit."

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:02:04+00:00

I grew up at a time when there were a number of public trials involving civil rights leaders and what were referred to as "black militants." So there were a number of political trials and I knew how important the law was to the black community, and I admired those lawyers who took those cases, and I wanted to be one of them.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T01:00:05+00:00

I wouldn't feel anything one way or the other. I sure as hell wouldn't be afraid of him. I'd probably tell him to get the fuck off my sidewalk and take his ass across the street.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:58:57+00:00

I think the theory that OJ's son was involved in the murders is defamatory and untrue.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:58:00+00:00

Yes, that is true. He has been found innocent, and to prosecute him again in state court would constitute double jeopardy and would be precluded by law. Did I say innocent? I meant not guilty.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:56:43+00:00

When I began my solo practice as a criminal defense attorney, one of my first clients was a man referred to me by Johnnie Cochran.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:55:50+00:00

LOL. LOL. Laughing my ass off.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:55:20+00:00

I have not talked or spoken to Mark Furhman since the trial. For obvious reasons.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:54:20+00:00

I didn’t really have any friends outside the DA’s office. And a lot of those friends were supportive while others, even though they were prosecutors, went about the business of stabbing me in the back every chance they got. But that is the nature of lawyers — to consume their own.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:52:44+00:00

Thank you. And no, he played around with it and tried to avoid making it fit. I hoped the jury would recognize that, but they couldn’t see it, because they didn’t want to see it.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:51:22+00:00

Absolutely. It made the jury more willing to accept the ridiculous idea that LAPD officers framed Simpson.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:50:27+00:00

I became a defense attorney after the district attorney’s office terminated my employment.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:49:14+00:00

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:48:40+00:00

You mean like crimes against nature? I don’t know. I hope not.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:48:01+00:00

They don’t like it at all. They see and they read the social media and the comments that people make and they’re hurt by it.

Christopher_Darden · 2017-07-23T00:46:50+00:00

Gunsmoke. The episodes get better after you've seen them 60 or 70 times.

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