The Resume

(September 19, 1949- )
Born in Queens, New York
Member of the O.J. Simpson 'Dream Team' defense
Co-founder of the Innocence Project (1992)

Why he might be annoying:

His suits never seemed to fit quite right.
Slate referred to his 'trademark sneering speeches [and] windmilling arms.'
He helped O.J. get away with murder.
He constantly talked about the LAPD storing blood samples in conditions that would allow the DNA to degrade, while ignoring the fact that DNA as it degrades doesn't change its identity (such as, magically transforming from the real killer's DNA pattern to OJ's).
During the O.J. trial, he got into a debate with Hank Goldberg of the prosecution team over whether 'meshugah' or 'meshuganah' was the Yiddish word for 'crazy.' (Answer: either form of the word is correct.)
He complained, 'Court TV, when Steve Bril began it, was an extraordinarily serious enterprise..... The Simpson case began to change all that.... Now we are in the era of Nancy Grace.'

Why he might not be annoying:

Slate called him 'probably the smartest' and 'certainly the hardest-working' member of O.J.'s defense team.
His eight-day cross-examination of LAPD criminologist Dennis Fung was called 'the greatest cross-examination since the Scopes trial.'
He said, 'The only silver lining I see in the Simpson case is that it changed the entire way law enforcement approached the gathering of evidence for purposes of DNA testing and for forensic testing generally.'
He was surprisingly even-handed in covering O.J.'s civil trial for NBC.
He said, 'Fame is a good thing to have sometimes if you can put it to good use. The Innocence Project benefited from that.'
The Innocence Project exonerated over 300 wrongfully convicted people, including 18 who were on death row.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Attorney
• B.O. and B.S.
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 59]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [September] (Ranked: 9191949)
• I Attended Horace Mann [Bronx]
• I Attended University of California, Berkeley
• I Attended Yale
• I Come from Queens
• Norm MacDonald Impersonations
• O.J. Trial of the Century
• Profiles 37001-37250 (Ranked: 37027)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 39 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 330 Votes: 29.09% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 87 Votes: 54.02% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 72 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 112 Votes: 58.04% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 101 Votes: 55.45% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 39 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 48 Votes: 60.42% Annoying