Straight Talking.

I started as the senior lawyer on the 'Dream Team' although Johnnie Cochran took the chair from me. I gave Mr. Simpson moral support from the get-go. I was there for him when he flew back from Chicago on Monday. I lied to reporters that he was home waiting for a flight when the murders took place. In the trial, I asked Detective Phil Vannatter why the blood being tested was taken from Parker Center out to Rockingham. Vannatter gave hesitant answers. The forensics man was supposed to analyze blood only at the laboratory, thus I sowed seeds of doubt. Nevertheless, when theverdict came in, I did not join the celebrations. I was being interviewed by Barbara Walters. She put it to me, 'The race card was surely played'. I answered, 'Barbara, not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.' - Robert Leslie Shapiro b.1942.