Some of his other work, when he was up at Rockingham, O.J. However, in late January 1995, he took on a less prominent role due to health reasons.

As assistant district attorney for the city of Los Angeles, Willliam Hodgman was one of the lead prosecutors, arguing pretrial motions and working on the jury selection process. So in that sense, and I think in a systemic sense, [the case] changed rules here in California [from] attorney commentary during a trial to how judges now more rigorously enforce the jury service and compel people to come in and follow up with prospective jurors. When Mr. Darden finished his discreet aspect of the case, we now had someone who was up to speed as an attorney on a lot of the factual material surrounding the case, and we were finding out at that time that the sheer management of the case was becoming difficult if Marcia Clark and I were sitting in court all day long and then trying to deal with the management of the case at 5:00 p.m. when we got out of court. ... Did that environment have anything to do with the prominent role [attorney] Christopher Darden played in the prosecution?

Simpson case? Now, years later, I happened to meet one of the jurors, who happened to be white, but he was a juror who had been excused from the panel almost midway through. Interestingly enough, for all of his tortured history with the LAPD in terms of trying to obtain a stress disability from LAPD at one point and everything that went along with that, I personally feel that by the time he was a detective out at the West L.A. division of the LAPD, he was a good cop; he was a good detective. Is our system so broken that it can't work?" We were standing there in the parking lot, and all we could hear was, 'That was payback for Rodney King. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni.

The preliminary hearing took about a week. did it, but that they were simply going to let him go -- a jury nullification -- or, if they really carefully deliberated and felt that somehow the evidence was inadequate." [2] In 1917, Hodgman, then a lieutenant, served aboard USS Connecticut.

William Hodgman passed away on March 20, 2018 in Keene, New Hampshire. But didn't the entire case have to do with the defendant's race? It became more of a phenomenon -- to some degree a spectacle -- than a more sober, serious trial. This is going to be payback for Rodney King.'". I think the system did not work. And as a result, that attitude, that atmosphere, carried over into the case. It was just a refusal to either accept or to value that evidence of abuse, of Simpson beating Nicole and the evidence of O.J. The playing of the "race card" was something that occurred very early on in the case, and you could feel it. He retired as a captain. I didn't know what to expect. ... Was the testimony of Detective Mark Fuhrman really necessary to the prosecution's case? William Adams Hodgman (January 31, 1884 – February 9, 1967) was a United States Navy captain and diplomat. But substantively, the case was pretty much there. The racial dynamics were certainly palpable in the courtroom. They felt it had nothing to do with the murder case. It had nothing to do with that at all really. '", And that sank in about just how powerful that sentiment was, how powerful that feeling was in that segment of the community.