Carl E. Douglas

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Carl E. Douglas
Born
Carl Edwin Douglas

(1955-05-08) May 8, 1955 (age 69)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater Northwestern University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (JD)
OccupationAttorney
Known for Defense attorney in O. J. Simpson murder trial

Carl Edwin Douglas (born May 8, 1955) is an American attorney, best known for being one of the defense attorneys in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. [1] Douglas was the managing attorney at the law office of Johnnie Cochran until 1998. [2]

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Education

Douglas graduated from Dorsey High School in Crenshaw, Los Angeles. [3] He earned his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of California, Berkeley. [4]

Career

Within a year after leaving the Cochran firm, Douglas was one of the lawyers in the biggest verdict of 1999, in the case of Patricia Anderson vs. General Motors . [5] In the verdict, General Motors was ordered to pay a record price of $4.9 billion for damages when two women and four children were trapped inside a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu, and the gas tank exploded on Christmas Eve of 1993. At the time, experts said it was the largest verdict for a personal injury case in history. [6]

In March 2008, Douglas filed a lawsuit in excess of $10 million against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department for the shooting death of Maurice Cox, an unarmed motorist, who was driving in South LA. Most of the shooting was captured on video by Alex Alonso, [7] a filmmaker who posted the footage on www.streetgangs.com the same night. [8]

References

  1. ↑ CA State Bar Records
  2. ↑ CourtTV, "O.J. Simpson trial: Key attorneys", CNN, March 31, 2005, retrieved February 12, 2009.
  3. ↑ Mitchell, John L. (May 13, 1995). "Friendly Grilling for Cochran". Los Angeles Times. He brought several members of his law firm to the dedication, including Carl E. Douglas, a 1973 graduate of Dorsey and a member of the Simpson defense team.
  4. ↑ "Member Detail". CA State Bar Records.
  5. ↑ Henry Weinstein, Eric Malnic, and Ann W. O'Neill, "GM Ordered to Pay $4.9 Billion in Crash Verdict", LA Times, July 10, 1999, retrieved February 12, 2009.
  6. ↑ Pollack, Andrew (July 10, 1999). "4.9 billion dollar verdict in GM fuel tank case". New York Times.
  7. ↑ Richard Winton, "Widow of man shot by police files $10-million claim", Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2008.
  8. ↑ Alex A. Alonso, "LAPD Shoot and kill unarmed motorist in South Los Angeles", Streetgangs.com, March 3, 2008.
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