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...wore a lawyerly tie and brown tweed jacket and spoke in a jurist's measured tones. He was sufficiently rational to raise objections that were then sustained by the judge. Yet it was not too long into the first day of the trial last Thursday when Colin Ferguson, lawyer, mused publicly on the 93 charges against Colin Ferguson, defendant, and the audience at the Nassau County, New York, supreme court got a taste of the sort of down-the-rabbit-hole experience they were in for. Leaning informally on a lectern, peering down earnestly at the jury, the Jamaican native...
...awful fear is that if it (a reconciliation) did happen, how long would she be able to stay on the straight and narrow?" Maj. Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York, in his new book. The Galloping Major. He was referring to the prospects of his daughter's reuniting with her estranged husband, Prince Andrew...
Responding to Paula Jones' claims in her sexual-harassment suit against President Clinton, Arkansas state trooper Danny Ferguson denied in court papers ever telling Jones that Clinton wanted to meet her in a hotel room, as ; she alleges. Ferguson does recall Jones saying she was attracted to Clinton...
...Ferguson's lawyers, famed criminal defense attorney William Kunstler and co- counsel Ronald Kuby, intend to shape an insanity plea using black rage. In a widely praised 1968 study titled Black Rage, African-American psychiatrists William Grier and Price Cobbs argued that racism forced blacks to make certain social adaptations, becoming mistrustful and suspicious of outsiders. That, say Ferguson's lawyers, combined with a mental disorder, triggered their client's attack -- and should mitigate whatever punishment is meted out to him. Says Kuby: "Being exposed to racist treatment over a long period of time drove Ferguson to violence." Critics...
Kunstler does not know yet whether he will be allowed to use testimony linking Ferguson's rage to the resulting violence. If the courts say yes, Kunstler has reason to hope for juror empathy. A National Law Journal survey of 800 people taken in March showed that 68% of blacks and 45% of whites felt that a "compelling" defense could be made of fury resulting from long-term racism...