Abstract
People vs. Orenthal James Simpson was in many respects a remarkable case. It had all the elements of a “trial of the century”: a high-profile defendant, two hideously slaughtered victims, and a “Dream Team” of defense lawyers. But most notably it was to be known as the trial that popularized the term “playing the race card” in a judicial context. Indeed, many, if not most of the spectators felt that the O.J. Simpson case was “all about race”-to use Alexis de Tocqueville’s paradigm, it was the case that brought America’s race relations into a courtroom and judged upon it.1)
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