Johnnie Cochran
Defense attorney
Closing argument: Cochran says he is honored to represent the interests of Pete Rose. He says he hopes the jury will render "baseball justice."

	Alan Dershowitz's catch phrase filled the court with laughter, but Johnnie Cochran's oratorial "Enough is enough" persuaded the jury that Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

"Enough is enough," Cochran says. "Enough is enough. This man, this icon. ... Everybody agrees that, based on his on-field exploits, he is entitled to be in the Hall of Fame. The question is whether he's eligible for admission."

Cochran's main thrust is that the Dowd Report is biased and wrong, and that Rose has never admitted he bet on baseball. He claims that Rose signed his agreement with Giamatti thinking he would be admitted to the Hall of Fame in a few years. When Giamatti died, Cochran asserts, his successor Fay Vincent changed the rules so that Rose's eligibility would not be considered.

"You have the power," Cochran tells the jury. "Fourteen years of banishment ... enough is enough. Now it's time to bring Pete Rose home -- home to the Hall of Fame."

Alan Dershowitz
Prosecuting attorney
Closing argument: Dershowitz says he understands, from an emotional standpoint, why fans want to see Rose in the Hall of Fame. "But you can't change the rules," Dershowitz says.

Dershowitz calls Cochran's "brilliant" closing argument a multiple-choice defense. "If you don't like the first choice, pick the second," Dershowitz says.

Citing the Dowd Report, Dershowitz points to evidence that Rose bet on baseball, in particular a Cincinnati-Montreal game. "This alone must persuade you he bet on baseball," Dershowitz says. "This alone must persuade you that he lied about it.

"If you believe he didn't bet on baseball, put him in the Hall of Fame. If you agree with the prosecution that he bet on baseball while denying it, keep him out."

Finally, borrowing from a certain nationally prominent defense attorney, Dershowitz pauses dramatically.

"If he bet on the game," he says, wagging a finger, "there's no Hall of Fame."

Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com