Clark, along with her colleagues, tried to make the case that Simpson had killed his ex-wife and Goldman. Press coverage of the trial, which began in January 1995 and was televised, remained constant over the next 10 months. I could feel the trial turning into a circus.” “I could feel justice being subverted before we started picking a jury. Clark, as she later explained to the Guardian newspaper, felt early on that the deck was stacked against the prosecution. Simpson lined up what news reporters labeled a “Dream Team” of lawyers to defend him, including Johnnie Cochran, Robert Kardashian, F. Clark even found her own personal life being discussed in the news. Simpson’s fame as an athlete and actor placed the case - and many of its participants - in the media spotlight. Simpson was soon charged with the two homicides, and Clark led the prosecution in the People of the State of California v. The pair were killed outside of Simpson’s Brentwood home in June 1994. Three years later, Clark was tapped as lead prosecutor, joining Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden and the team working on the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In 1991, she made headlines when she put Robert John Bardo behind bars for life after proving that he stalked and killed the young television actress Rebecca Schaeffer. Clark began to accrue an impressive track record handling murder cases as well. She excelled at her work, winning convictions in various criminal cases. In 1981, Clark went to work for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. Clark soon enrolled at Southwestern University School of Law, where she earned her degree in 1979. After graduating from UCLA in 1976, she found work in a law office.

Studying hard in school was a priority in her home, as was taking Hebrew lessons, but Clark also enjoyed the arts growing up, taking dance and drama and piano classes.Ĭlark first attended the University of California Riverside before transferring to the University of California Los Angeles where she majored in political science. Her father, an Israeli immigrant, worked as a chemist for the Food and Drug Administration, and he relocated the family numerous times for his job. The eldest of two children, Marcia Clark was born on August 31, 1953, in Berkeley, California. Her books include the 1997 memoir Without a Doubt and the 2014 crime drama The Competition. Not long after the trial ended, Clark moved to a career as a legal analyst and author. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Clark took on her most infamous trial in 1995 when she worked on the prosecution of O.J. She worked countless cases during her career, including the 1991 trial of Robert John Bardo, who was convicted of murdering actress Rebecca Schaeffer. Marcia Clark started her career as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney in 1981.

Blood Defense by Marcia Clark