Mark Geragos
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1,397 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Mark Geragos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Johnny didn't want to do another criminal case again.
He was kind of verboten.
Johnny used to sit at jury selection.
He would rent himself out to mass tort lawyers and to PI lawyers because jurors would raise their hand and say, I can't be fair because Johnny Cochran is the lawyer.
He was that much hated.
Mark, you are a very popular attorney.
That's all going to end because Scott Peterson is the most hated man in America.
And if you take this case, you're going to be the second most hated man in America.
My father, who was my mentor, partner and hero, he said to me, look, if you're not going to take this case because of the absolute blowback you're going to get, and he knew there would be blowback, then you should be selling oranges on the side of the freeway.
What are you doing if you're more concerned about your reputation?
then you shouldn't be doing this.
And that scene outside of the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Station, when they had arrested Scott, brought him in, and people were surrounding the Sheriff's Station with placards asking that he'd be hung and man or monster and all that stuff, that kind of roiled me to the point where I said, okay, I'm going to jump in.
And that's, at peace with it, not happy about it.
It's kind of the Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 reps, 10,000 hours.
I talk about this with Carole all the time too.
You get a sense, you know, you have, I mean, you're not infallible when it comes to that, but you know.
Nothing in his background shows that he could have done it.
You have to understand, it's the only time that I can think of in any case, and I've tried hundreds of case, I stopped counting at 300, that I've ever called a none.
onto the stand as a character witness.
And even she talked about she had grown up or watched him grow up and said he had no violence in his background.
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