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Simpson, Jackson attend Cochran funeral

O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs were among thousands of mourners Wednesday at services for star attorney, Johnnie Cochran Jr. in Los Angeles. Cochran died Mar. 29 at his home of a brain tumor. He was 67.

"Johnnie's the best," Simpson said on his way into West Angeles Cathedral,. "He's the best."

"We've known him for representing O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson but he was bigger and better than that," said basketball great Earvin Magic' Johnson, one of the more than 2000 people who packed the West Angeles Cathedral for Cochran's funeral.

"He represented people you've never heard of," he said.

"In the Bible, David beat Goliath one time," Rev. Jesse Jackson said, according to City News Service. "Johnnie beat Goliath over and over and over again."

In 1997, Cochran won freedom for former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who had been wrongly imprisoned for 27 years. At the time, Cochran said it was the happiest day of his life. Why was that so important to him?

"He had a passion for Geronimo Pratt," says Klieman. "Had he worked, as you say, for 27 years to get the freedom for someone who he believed was wrongly convicted, and the idea of the emotion that welled up inside of him for all those years to be able to say to this man, 'You are free to leave.' for a lawyer who really works for justice, there is nothing better than that."

April 7, 2005
POSTED BY Fabien Montique
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Simpson, Jackson attend Cochran funeral