Jo ellan dimitrius oj trial lawyers

During the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius came up with the profile of the “perfect juror” – the type of person Simpson’s defense team wanted in the jury box to secure an acquittal.

“The perfect juror was a female African American with a high school education or less,” Dimitrius recalled in a 2016 interview with “Inside Edition.”

Though the education levels of the jurors in the Simpson trial are not known, the defense team succeeded in the other criteria.

Of the 12 jurors, eight were Black, including six women and two men.

Simpson was acquitted.

Now, almost 30 years later, Dimitrius has helped select the jury tasked with deciding the guilt or innocence of another high-profile defendant – Kyle Rittenhouse, a spokesman for Dimitrius & Associates, Dimitrius’s consulting firm, confirme