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Robert Shapiro Reveals What OJ Simpson Whispered After Verdict

Former Simpson lawyer appears on Megyn Kelly's Fox News special

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Quondam O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Shapiro appeared on Megyn Kelly's Fox special on Tuesday night, and finally revealed what his client whispered in his ear later on the verdict was read.

"Yous had told me this would be the result from the beginning. You were right," Shapiro says Simpson told him in 1995 after he was acquitted of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Shapiro appeared on "Megyn Kelly Presents" Tuesday, which also featured interviews with presidential candidate Donald Trump, "Rocky Horror Flick Show" star Laverne Cox and Michael Douglas.

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The lawyer also discussed the pivotal moment in the court when Simpson tried on the encarmine glove. Shapiro told Kelly that he had tried on the glove himself and immediately knew it would not fit his client.

"I desire you to walk as close to the jury equally you tin, concord up your mitt like you're conveying the Olympic torch, and pull and tug on that glove," Shapiro told Simpson. "Considering it will not fit."

"And clearly it didn't," he said.

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Simpson and the murder trial have returned to the cultural consciousness recently thanks to FX's miniseries "People 5. O.J. Simpson: American Offense Story" and the eight-hour ESPN documentary series "O.J.: Made in America." In the quondam, Shapiro was portrayed by a heavily made-up John Travolta.

Shapiro wouldn't discuss whether or not he believed Simpson to exist guilty, telling Kelly that he hasn't talked about it with anyone — including his married woman.

"At that place's moral justice and in that location's legal justice. And when that not guilty verdict, uh, was rendered, I felt legal justice was done," he said. "As far as moral justice, I oasis't discussed it with anyone, including my wife."

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Shapiro's former client was later convicted of armed robbery in 2008, but the lawyer said he wouldn't have taken on the case even if Simpson had called.

"He yet owed me money from the showtime ane," he explained.

Chris Darden: What 'People v OJ Simpson' Didn't Include (Photos)

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  His Crisis
  Christopher Darden (played by Sterling K. Brown) suffered an even greater personal crisis than we saw on "The People v. O.J. Simpson": His blood brother, a onetime drug addict, was dying of AIDS.

  "Every hour in court was fourth dimension that could have been spent with him," Jeffrey Toobin wrote in "The Run of His Life."

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  His Ascension
  Darden (shown hither getting communication from Courtney B. Vance's Johnnie Cochran) had "come up further and overcome more than any of the principal lawyers in the Simpson case, and probably bore the best intentions as well," Toobin writes.

  Darden grew up struggling in Richmond, California, shoplifted in college, and fathered a child out of wedlock in police school, Toobin said. But he eventually made it to prosecuting ane of the most prominent trials in history.

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  His Track Record
  Darden was very familiar with the black power fist held up by a juror, Toobin writes. Darden ran rails at San Jose State in the 1970s. Student athletes from the school, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, had famously held upward the salute at the 1968 Olympic Summer Games in Mexico City.

  He quit track around the fourth dimension an African-American studies professor, Gloria Alibaruho, became a mentor to him, and, in his words, "taught me who I was."

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  A Bad Call
  Darden called into Geraldo Rivera's talk bear witness during the early role of the trial to criticize the performance of Det. Tom Lange -- a witness for the prosecution. Darden'due south move did not brand fellow prosecutors, or cops, very happy, and he stopped making such appearances.

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  His Politics
  After the trial, Darden was scheduled to speak at the 1996 Republican Presidential Convention, but was bumped at the final infinitesimal.

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The prosecutor was facing even greater inner turmoil than the FX show revealed

His Crisis
Christopher Darden (played by Sterling K. Brown) suffered an fifty-fifty greater personal crunch than we saw on "The People v. O.J. Simpson": His brother, a former drug addict, was dying of AIDS.

"Every hour in court was time that could have been spent with him," Jeffrey Toobin wrote in "The Run of His Life."

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