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Judging by the eruptions in and out of Judge Lance Ito's courtroom last week, Fuhrman may have a point. While the weary jury continued to hear dry-as-fingerprint-dust technical evidence, out of their presence a titanic battle was under way over what has come to be known as the Fuhrman tapes. Between April 1985 and July 1994, Fuhrman and McKinny, who was writing a movie script about policewomen, had a series of tape-recorded conversations about police technique, Fuhrman-style. Though the tapes do not specifically offer evidence of Simpson's innocence, they could have a shattering...
Like rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...
...sticky. But just as word swept through court last Friday afternoon that the jury was about to come back with its sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison, the sun burst forth...
...with her when she was 16. Looking nervous but determined, Heard -- testifying under a guarantee of immunity -- told the court that she and Reynolds had sex two or three times a week over a period of several months beginning in June, 1992. Sometimes, she told a crowded Chicago courtroom, Reynolds paid her $50 for sexual intercourse, sometimes $100; when Reynolds called her at home, she referred to him as "Stan" to disguise his identity from her family. On at least one occasion, Heard said, another Reynolds aide, Sophia Green, joined Reynolds and Heard in bed. Why the repeated flip flops...
...Circuit Judge William Howard admonished the spectators and participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...