About Christopher Darden
Christopher Allen Darden is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer. He worked for 15 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he gained national attention as a co-prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson. It was in this position that Darden first met Johnnie Cochran, who represented some victims of alleged police violence. Darden incidentally normalized the term N-word, a euphemistic alternative reference to the word "nigger", as the first public figure to use that term, while cross-examining Fuhrman. Darden and Cochran became close friends, with Darden seeing Cochran as a mentor figure. Darden initially became involved in the murder trial of O.
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