Word: fuhrman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these are also the gloves that seemed too small for O.J. when Darden asked him to put them on in court. Will the jury care that O.J. was putting them on over latex lab gloves that would have hampered the fit? More important, it was Mark Fuhrman who found the glove in Simpson's yard. More than once, the jury heard excerpts from the letter by Kathleen Bell, a Fuhrman acquaintance, who said he told her if he wanted to arrest an interracial couple, he would invent a charge if necessary...
...second set of DNA tests, done in a lab not affiliated with the L.A.P.D., also showed the blood of O.J., Ron and Nicole in the Bronco. But the defense explains that by saying Fuhrman rubbed the bloody glove around the car. They offer no physical evidence to support their claims, but to the mind of the jurors they may not need to. Their allegations exist in a context of public anger over the L.A.P.D.'S problems with race relations, to say nothing of Fuhrman...
...SIMPSON IS NOT Everybrother. I keep thinking about the thousands of black men who have been arrested since Mr. Simpson who cannot afford legal representation, and about whom we hear nothing. Likewise, Nicole Simpson is not Everyvictim, and Mark Fuhrman is not Everyracist. When we create these false archetypes as a culture, we avoid confronting the very real systemic issues and problems that are elements of the trial: violence toward women; racism; and our national obsession with celebrity, race, sex and money. Whatever the verdict, I don't think the O.J. Simpson trial will have a deep, profound or lasting...
...Johnnie Cochran and the investigative resources of an O.J. Simpson. An acquittal in the Simpson case will give other defendants false hopes that their cases can be beat as well. As a white man with a healthy skepticism of authority, I was nevertheless stunned that a Mark Fuhrman could have remained so long on a prestigious, presumably professional urban police force. Because no future juror who has heard the Fuhrman tapes will soon forget them, the damage wrought by the Simpson trial will be the reluctance of jurors, black and white, to trust the word of white officials who gather...
...become black again, thanks to Mark Fuhrman, who treated him like a "nigger," and Johnnie Cochran, who made sure nobody forgot it. Once again, blacks and whites are glaring at each other across the color line in mutual incomprehension as yet another trial of American race relations unfolds in the City of Angels. To whites, the central issue is whether Simpson is a murderer, while to blacks it is whether the process that brought him to trial was fatally contaminated by racial bias. Simpson is still no hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their...