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The United States’ most-publicized jury trial of a professional athlete has an undisputed champion. The Feb. 2 debut of the FX miniseries “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” drew an audience of five million-plus viewers, a record for the network, and again drew attention to the double-homicide of Simpson’s former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. It also reintroduced us to a cast of characters that became as familiar to many Americans as any TV stars: prosecutor Marcia Clark (played by Sarah Paulson), defense attorneys Robert Shapiro (John Travolta) and Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B.