Robert Kardashian and O.J. Simpson

Robert Kardashian left, with attorney Gerald Uelman, right, and an unidentified third party in O.J. Simpson’s back yard the day after police and officials from the D.A.’s office searched it.

Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. comments on a North Carolina judge’s decision ordering screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny to surrender audio tapes of Los Angeles Police Department’s officer Mark Fuhrman at a news conference Mondday Aug. 7, 1995 in Los Angeles. Members of the defense team, attorney Robert Kardashian, left, and attorney Robert Blasier stand behind. (AP Photo/Carolyn Cole,Pool )  (CAROLYN COLE / Los Angeles Times)

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Robert Shapiro, left, and Robert Kardashian.

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Robert Kardashian, right, O.J. Simpson’s friend and attorney, talks to talkshow host Larry King as he appears on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Friday, Oct. 6, 1995, in Los Angeles. Kardashian refuted reports that he had sold photographs of Simpson’s reunion with his two small children to a tabloid. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)  (KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / AP)

@@*@@* FILE @@*@@*Attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds onto O.J. Simpson as a not guilty verdict is read in a Los Angeles courtroom in this file photo taken Oct. 3, 1995. At left is F. Lee Bailey and second from left is Robert Kardashian. Simpson says that without the money to pay for a “dream team” of lawyers, he would not have been acquitted of murdering his ex–wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Saturday, June 12, 2004, marks the 10–year anniversary of the murders. (AP Photo/Pool, Myung J. Chun, File)  (MYUNG J CHUN / AP)

In June 1995, O.J. Simpson’s legal team included, from left, Carl Douglas, Robert Kardashian and Johnnie Cochran.

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