While Marcia Clark, a part of the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office’s special trials unit since 1989, was trying to prosecute O.J. for murder, she was also constantly put on the defensive. Her style was criticized, so she got a new hairdo and was criticized for that. Her ex-husband sued her for primary custody of their two sons during the trial, alleging she was working too much to properly take care of them. The National Enquirer published old topless photos of her taken on a vacation with her then-husband. Even a potential juror, a woman, when asked if there was anything she might hold against the prosecution, told Clark, “I think your skirts are too short, how about that?”
She was dismissed. But not before Judge Ito cracked, “I was wondering when someone was going to mention that.”
“She seems always to be concerned with our family, how we’re doing, and at the same time there’s never a doubt in my mind she’s working 25 hours a day, 10 days a week, on this case,” Fred Goldman, Ron’s father, told the New York Times. “On a scale of 1 to 100, she easily gets 110.”
Nicole’s sister Denise Brown told The New Yorker, “I think Marcia is wonderful, a terrific woman, and I think my whole family will vouch for that one.”
