Attorney Johnnie Cochran was watching a slow-speed police chase on a news monitor in a local ABC studio. A caravan of Los Angeles police vehicles was following a white Ford Bronco on California Interstate 405. Inside the SUV was ex-football star O.J. Simpson, the LAPD’s primary suspect in the July 12, 1994, murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The slow-speed chase ended hours later when Simpson surrendered to the police at his Brentwood home. Relieved by the peaceful arrest, Cochran then appeared on Ted Koppel’s Nightline television show. He cautioned viewers that, in accordance with American tradition, Simpson should be presumed innocent of the killings.