Word: frame-up
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...explained that Fuhrman's plea of no contest to perjury gave him no choice. While declaring that he didn't want "grandiose theories placed before a jury," Fujisaki handed the defense several other plums. Among the items they will be allowed to contend were planted as part of a frame-up: blood belatedly gathered from a gate at Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium, bloody socks found in Simpson's bedroom and blood gathered from the Ford Bronco two weeks after the murders. Still, says Los Angeles civil attorney Sandy Astor, "this ruling was expected, even without Fuhrman's plea. Nobody...
...racist monologues could have provided a voice-over for the Rodney King beating tape, it wasn't possible to forget race. "The best thing that could come out of this trial is O.J.'s being found not guilty because the jury believes that there was some type of frame-up," says Anthony Taylor, 36, a black Chicago paralegal who carpools to work with a white woman and often discusses the case during their ride. "It would shed light on the racial problems not only in various police departments but in the general population as a whole...
...physical evidence in the case. That methodical approach, they said, would lead straight from the crime scene to Simpson's bedroom and to only one conclusion: Guilty. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran delivered a fire-and-brimstone assault on the Los Angeles police. He accused the department of plotting a frame-up of his client, who he said was innocent and had been targeted by a deceitful and ruthlessly racist detective, Mark Fuhrman. Defense attorney Barry Scheck said blood-DNA tests had been so tampered with they were worthless...
...testified that he had not used the slur in a decade. But Ito barred the defense from using any of Fuhrman's 18 statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer a frame-up. "This assertion is not supported by the record," Ito said. "The underlying assumption requires a leap in both law and logic that is too broad to be made based upon the evidence before the jury...
...Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...