Seeing Allred Page #7

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And the phone rang and it was CNN .

[woman] Prosecutors filed the case

before the end

of the statue of limitations

in Pennsylvania.

Now Andrea Constand

may be the only accuser

to meet Bill Cosby in criminal court.

[Allred] I ran to the television.

I watched it.

And then I did the interview

in my pajamas.

I'm very proud of Andrea,

I don't represent her ,

but I know that her attorney

and she have shown

quite a bit of courage.

Took a shower, I got dressed,

wrote something very quickly.

So this is a copy of the arrest warrant,

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

versus William Henry Cosby.

For many of my 29 clients,

seeing him criminally charged

and having to face a trial

is the best Christmas present

that they have ever received.

We're happy

that the wheels of justice are turning,

and the courtroom door is now open.

There will be a day in court

for Mr. Cosby.

We'll all be watching.

[Lange] O.J., you there?

You're listening to me, I know .

You're thinking about your kids right now,

aren't you?

-[O.J.] Oh...

-[Lange] They're thinking about you.

[Walters] The police were attempting

to arrest Simpson

for the murders of his former wife,

Nicole Brown Simpson,

and her friend, Ron Goldman.

It was a grisly crime scene.

[Brown] The very first time

I walked into that office,

Marcia Clark's office,

I had to stop at the doorway.

And I looked,

and I just kept staring.

It was the crime scene photos.

It was my sister with her throat cut.

Finally, she looked

to where I was looking,

and she goes,

"Oh, my God.

It's just like furniture to me."

I just thought, "Am I going to be able

to make it through this?"

These are the people

that are supposed to be helping us

and being there for us.

[Rosenbaum] In a criminal case,

the district attorney

represents the state.

The district attorney

does not represent the victim.

It's confusing. People believe,

"Well, I'm the one that's been victimized,

so surely that's my lawyer."

That's not your lawyer.

You don't have one.

If you're the victim

or you're the victim's family,

you are merely there as an observer.

His whole team of people

would be out there in the media,

doing their interviews every single night.

Somebody from his team

was always speaking.

-The victim's sister?

-We don't want to give her a chance...

Someone told me, they said,

"You know what?

The one person that can really help you

is Gloria Allred.

[woman] Gloria Allred

represents the Brown family,

which has custody of Sydney and Justin.

As grandparents, they've tried

to shield the children

from any exposure to the trial.

TVs were turned off,

except in my father's bedroom.

He says,

"I want to know what's going on,

and I want to keep track

of what's happening."

What's your assessment

on the defense success so far?

Well, I think the defense

is doing extraordinary well

in showing that these officers

jumped the gun.

There were no trials

that had cameras in them

until about the late 1980s,

so I probably didn't encounter Gloria

until TVs came into the courtroom.

[Allred] Of course,

everyone in the courtroom

has been instructed to engage

in appropriate courtroom conduct,

so they're trying very much

to hold their emotions inside.

[Van Susteren] Gloria, she's smart.

She saw that she could use the TV.

She could use the camera

to really fight for her clients.

We believe the family of the murder victim

should also have the right to be present

during the judge's inquiry.

You take a high-profile case

that's actually in trial,

Gloria becomes running interference,

almost like a PR position

for the benefit of the family

Most people could not even be open

to the possibility

he might've committed these murders

because he looked

like a very affable, nice guy.

But when they learned of his shameful

past, heard the 911 calls...

You're making my point, Gloria,

about how prejudicial it is.

Let me finish.

[Dershowitz]

Some on the defense resented it.

And who thought of her as a "buttinsky."

Uh...

"Why is she involved in this case?

She's representing the family,

they have no standing."

That's certainly not my position.

I think most reasonable lawyers understand

that there are two sides.

The way they spun everything around,

they turned her into this

party animal,

drug addict.

These ladies would go out

two, three, four nights a week

and stay out till 5:00 in the morning.

It was like, "Gloria, you need

to understand who she is."

She was a mom.

She had two young children.

She loved life, she loved her family.

Please join us in this candlelight vigil

by saying a prayer,

not only for Nicole and for Ron,

but for all victims

of domestic violence everywhere.

[Brown] If it wouldn't have been

for Gloria,

Nicole would have never been

a human being.

She would have always been just

that person on the gurney, and just...

nobody.

[woman] So can you talk

about William Allred?

You never talk about him.

It seems like--

I don't really want to talk about him.

It's been said that you felt

very betrayed by him,

but you've never really said why.

And I never will.

[woman] We're wondering if that was

a hard time for you?

I've had challenges that were greater

than that one.

[woman] Wait. Judge, could you please tell

your client she's being non-responsive?

I know. Okay, start again.

[laughter]

All right, here's the answer.

I've had many challenges

in my personal life.

And I've met those challenges,

and continue to take care of my clients.

[woman] Gloria...

[Allred] It was about a 19 year marriage.

Well, I kept the name

because people knew me by that time.

I didn't want to change my name

to a name that nobody knew me by.

I remember thinking ,

"Gee, I wish I had a Gloria Allred

to take care of me."

Then I stopped for second and realized,

"Wait a minute, I'm Gloria Allred."

[Tapper] Gloria Allred is her name.

She represents women

with high profile claims

to having been wronged.

Actresses, ex-wives,mistresses.

In the end, he betrayed her,

and has humiliated her

in the eyes of her friends

who were aware of the relationship.

[woman] Actress Hunter Tylo won

a nearly five million dollarjudgment

in a pregnancy discrimination suit

against the producers of Melrose Place.

We think that women in this country

have a right to work,

even when they are pregnant,

as long as they can perform the job.

Hunter Tylo can perform,

she can be bold, beautiful,

she can be pregnant

and she can be on Melrose Place !

[cheering and applause]

The former girlfriend of Scott Peterson

says she will testify for the prosecution

during his murder trial.

Now, Amber Frey has hired an attorney,

Gloria Allred.

[Herskowitz] Gloria invented, essentially,

a new genre of law ,

namely representing victims,

primarily women.

[camera shutters clicking]

Our adversarial system requires

that everybody be represented.

And so, although I'm often

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