Mr. Cochran was already a prominent Los Angeles lawyer in 1994 , when Mr. Simpson , the former football star , asked him to join and then lead the lawyers defending him on charges that he had killed his former wife , Nicole Brown Simpson , and a friend of hers , Ronald L. Goldman .
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