Crime, Sports

O.J. Lawyer Thinks Stephen A. Smith Is An Idiot

Stephen A. Smith thinks he would have run a better prosecution than Marcia Clark.

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Stephen A. Smith via Twitter

Stephen A. Smith via Twitter

Quite frankly, Stephen A. Smith is a source of ceaseless entertainment. Whether he’s explaining how awful Slava Medvedenko was or asking if you want to snap into a knockoff of a Slim Jim, he’s ready to forcefully deliver random hot takes for your viewing pleasure.

He’s your sharply dressed, seemingly successful cousin who just happens to believe his dental fillings are spying on him. Except for sports!

But does he understand the law? Stephen A. recently took to the airwaves to explain that he could have secured a conviction in the O.J. Simpson murder trial because he’s better at lawyerin’ than Marcia Clark and Chris Darden. Look, he’s watched The People v. O.J. Simpson and he’s GOT this, guys.

Carl Douglas — an actual attorney who worked the case — disagrees:

Smith is the best and worst of television commentary, a provocateur who knows or should know that 90 percent of the opinions he unleashes upon the viewing public amount to humorous drivel. But you have to hand it to him for starting a conversation. Perhaps I’m too charitable, but when Smith pontificates about how domestic violence doesn’t really matter, he might be pulling some Andy Kaufman-level satire. His addled defense of a star athlete’s history of abuse is almost a caricature of how sports culture labors to ignore violence against women to advance its own hero narrative. Smith may be a genius.

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Joe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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