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Prosecutors today attempted to salvage the credibility ofcriminalist Dennis Fung. During six previous days of withering cross-examination, defenseDNA expertBarry Scheck had cast so much doubt on Fung's testimony that a gleeful defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. was seen happily roaming the halls Thursday saying, "We're having Fung," while lawyer Robert Shapiro handed out fortune cookies...
...TIME F. LEE BAILEY'S AVIDLY anticipated showdown with Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman was over last Friday, the lawyer was in a chatty mood--and fairly pleased with his own performance. "Johnnie Cochran and O.J. Simpson understand that jury the way no white lawyer will. Days 2 and 3 of Fuhrman's cross, we got very good vibes," he explained to Time. "I'm not Perry Mason; nobody is. Other lawyers whom I respect told me that given what I had to work with, it was good. Norman Mailer called me and said it was flawless...
...WAIL by Johnnie Cochran (from his opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial) There was no hostility No stalking No jealousy No nothing...
Even in the Simpson trial, there is a double standard. No one seems concerned that Robert Shapiro, who has young children, is out many nights at the Eclipse, the Beverly Hills restaurant of the moment, and no one dwells on Johnnie Cochran's troubled record as a husband. The double standard means a working mother not only has to worry that someone else will see her child take his first step while she is reading a brief but also that if she achieves success in a man's world, her child won't be there when she gets home...
...JOHNNIE COCHRAN O.J. lawyer learns ex-gal pal has retained a palimony expert...