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When it comes to Fuhrman, Los Angeles correspondent Sylvester Monroe reports, "everyone is running for the tall grass." Today, Robert Tourtelot, Fuhrman's attorney, held a press conference to tell the world that he had dropped his friendless client because he was "profoundly disgusted and horrified" by the racial slurs and personal philosophy contained on tapes of the former LAPD detective. "This is simply a matter of trying to get away from the taint of Fuhrman," says Monroe. "But it's a bit disingenuous. All of these people, from Marcia Clark to the Los Angeles Police Department, knew about Fuhrman...
...been bruised by allegations of racism, had barely recovered from the Rodney King beating case when the Simpson trial began. And now, after months of testimony in which the defense has tried to blame sloppy police work and evidence planting for the mountains of blood-soaked evidence against their client, it may have another tough fight ahead. According to Johnnie Cochran, "these tapes have nothing to do with any screenplay. He is talking about what he did on the job...some of which, quite frankly, is criminal conduct. This man is going to have to be indicted along...
...always taken a feisty stand, but his health is poor and he might theoretically find cooperating an appealing alternative to a stretch behind bars. (Almost all counts of the latest indictment are punishable by up to five years in prison.) TIME has learned from attorney Bobby McDaniel that his client Susan McDougal has refused an offer from Starr to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in return for her cooperation. The Administration is now cautiously optimistic that barring another indictee's turning state's evidence, the worst is over...
...growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman. Says director and CAA client Martin Scorsese: "It will be interesting to see what films get made, and who flourishes, in this new world order...
...surprised hardly anyone. But events breaking around the indictment did present an unpredictable opportunity to TIME correspondent Patrick E. Cole, who began covering the Oklahoma City story hours after the April 19 explosion. Unexpectedly, Stephen Jones, McVeigh's attorney, gave Cole permission to interview William and Jennifer McVeigh, his client's father and sister. "I always wonder how the accused and the family feel when they're in the spotlight," Cole says. "Getting to the McVeigh family for their first in-depth interview was thus all the more exciting...