Players Conventional Wisdom Ito (down) Blew it. Hypnotized by Cochran, lost control of the trial. Paging Judge Wapner. Cochran (down) Says sleazy rule-breaking an “honest mistake.” Sure. You wonder why we hate hired guns? Clark (up) Powerful opening statement topped by hardball response to defense dissembling. Sic ’em. Darden (up) Blue-collar civil servant slam-dunks Dream Team. CW sez: A star is born. Camera Survives Ito’s irrational tantrum. But we missed seeing O.J.’s knees. Simpson (down) If he really wanted to sell books, he would have told where he hid the knife.
