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Article: Case Puts Male Friendship Under Microscope
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 29, 1994
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LOS ANGELES At some point on Friday, June 17, O.J. Simpson and
his good friend, Al Cowlings, arrived at a decision.
Left alone in a downstairs room of the sprawling home of friend
Robert Kardashian, with Simpson's attorney, Robert L. Shapiro, and
several other people conferring in a conference room upstairs, the
pair fled. Equipped with a cellular phone and a gun, they slipped
away in a white Ford Bronco, beginning what would be one of the most
dramatic police chases and surrenders ever seen.
Simpson may have had an understandable reason for running:
guilty or innocent, he faced two counts of first-degree murder with
special circumstances, leaving him vulnerable to a death sentence if ...