It’s not perfect by no means, and I think if there were another high-profile case where a woman were the lead prosecutor, you’d probably see some quarters where you’d hear “b-tch” and “she’s so shrill.” But I do think there would be some pushback there. The younger men tend to be less sexist also, so there does seem to be a move that is appreciable toward a better situation for women in the law. I think that there’s probably a greater awareness of sexism and a much lower tolerance for it. It took years, and there are many more women prosecuting today than were back then. And we did co-op one of them, but eventually we did. When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men’s bathrooms and only one women’s bathroom. Do you think the experience of being a female prosecutor has changed for women today? Read more: WNBA MVP Says People Have Told Her to ‘Go Back to the Kitchen’ … I have to ask you: If I was a man who had led the Simpson trial, would you have asked me if there was a woman prosecutor?
They would not allow him to go down for this, and the evidence didn’t matter. There was a determination in the African American community that he would not go down. It was a moment in time very shortly after the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing racial riots, when racial tension was at an all-time high. It didn’t matter who defended him either, truthfully. I don’t think it had anything to do with who prosecuted him. Simpson would have lost if he’d been prosecuted by a man? And I mean, what else could I have done?ĭo you think O.J. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. I think women in general, we just soldier on. A lot of the women who say to me, “Oh, I could never have done that,” I think they could. I had to really stay focused on what the job was and on the case and just go about my business. It’s funny-it’s one of the questions I do get asked by women so frequently: ‘How did you cope? How did you deal with that?’ And I think that I just didn’t know that there was any other option.
Simpson trial-what helped you stay strong in the face of that kind of commentary? You dealt with blatant sexism throughout the O.J. So of course that makes it harder because it’s so real. And I thought Sarah Paulson was absolutely brilliant. It’s been very tough to relive that nightmare and because the performances were so stellar and it was done so well, I couldn’t help but relive the nightmare. What has it been like to see your experience reimagined on The People v.
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