Christopher Darden

Christopher Allen Darden born April 7 1956 is an American lawyer author actor and lecturer He is a 15year veteran of the Los Angeles County District Attorneys office where he was a coprosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder trial a role in which he gained a great deal of national attention He left the District Attorneys office after the Simpson case and joined the faculty of the Southwestern University School of Law where he taught and specialized in criminal procedure and trial advocacy He then left the law school in 1999 and started his own firm Darden Associates Inc specializing in criminal defense and civil litigation In December 2007 he was considered for a judgeship by then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger He is a former legal commentator for CNBC CNN Court TV and NBC and a frequent guest and commentator on CNN Court TV and Fox News Network He has made guest appearances on Touched by an Angel Girlfriends The Tonight Show with Jay Leno The Howard Stern Show Muppets Tonight Roseanne the movie Liar Liar and the TV movie One Hot Summer Night in which he plays a disgruntled policeman He is the former principal attorney in the syndicated legal show Power of Attorney He is also an author In addition to In Contempt which chronicles his experiences with the Simpson trial he coauthored with Dick Lochte a number of crime novels including The Trials of Nikki Hill 1999 LA Justice 2000 and The Last Defense 2002 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia