For Marcia Clark, the prosecutor who tried O.J. Simpson for double murder in 1995, and lost, The Fix series on ABC is something of a wishful do-over.
More broadly the series offers a fresh reminder that the Simpson trial — which unfolded in a Los Angeles courtroom to astonishing plot twists and became known as the “Trial of the Century” — exerts a hold on popular consciousness, 24 years on.
For Clark, the Simpson case, ended in steep disappointment after being outmaneuvered by the defense legal team, which turned the trial into a referendum on race relations and police misconduct in Los Angeles.
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