O.J.: Made in America (2016)

Carl Douglas: Self - The Cochran Firm

Quotes 

• Carl Douglas : I went to an inner-city high school. Our football team was terrible, but our fighters were good. We might lose the fourth quarter in the ballgame, but we'd win the fifth quarter after the game, the fight. It's called "the fifth quarter." That was, at most, a two-year crime dripping wet. The judge in that case held the jury out until eleven o'clock on a Friday night thirteen years to the day of O.J. Simpson's verdict on October the third. That in my mind was not a coincidence. And the 33-year sentence - reflecting the 33 million dollars in the civil verdict - was no coincidence. And that was the fifth quarter. They got back at O.J. for winning our case. White America got back at O.J. for being aquitted of murder.

• Carl Douglas : [talking about Marcia Clark's correct assertion that they manipulated the photos on O.J.'s wall]  Marcia saw the wall, and she said, "Carl, you know damn well that he has never had this many black people on his wall in his entire life." I said, "Marcia! What are you talking about? How dare you accuse us of such things?"

• Carl Douglas : Every black lawyer idolized Johnnie Cochran in 1994. And I say, Chris Darden wanted to "out-Johnnie" Johnnie. He wanted to beat the man on the biggest stage of his career.

• Carl Douglas : [about Chris Darden]  It was apparent to everybody in America why he was now on the case.

  Ezra Edelman : Why was he on the case?

  Carl Douglas : Well, certainly because he was black! Well, that was pear, buddy. "Oh, because he's a good lawyer! He's a good lawyer! We want to strengthen the team up!" That was the party line.