Word: fuhrman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That gave Cochran the opening to put at the center of his case Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective who played a critical role in collecting evidence at the crime scenes--and whose mind, judging from the taped monologues he made for a would-be screenwriter, is a storm of racial fury. But Cochran set off his own kind of racial tempest when he used his closing arguments to call Fuhrman and another Los Angeles officer, Philip Vannatter, "twin devils" and to compare Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler. More than that, he urged the jurors to see a not-guilty...
...already had. In a case in which Fuhrman's 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...
...thought they'd find him guilty, especially since they didn't hear all the conspiracy plots and all the Mark Fuhrman stuff," said Jon D. Doolittle...
...began during the telecast of Game 5 of Knicks-Rockets 1994 NBA championship series with a white-bronco chase along a near-deserted freeway in California. Few could have guessed then that the saga would continue for 16 months of jury selection, DNA evidence, bloody gloves, mystery envelopes, Fuhrman tapes and, in maybe the most ironic twist of the entire circus, a verdict in four hours...
...Glenn C. Loury, two of the country's most prominent black conservatives, "disaffiliated" themselves from the American Enterprise Institute, where D'Souza is a research fellow, in protest over the book. Sounding more like the Rev. Al Sharpton than a conservative Republican, Woodson denounced D'Souza as "the Mark Fuhrman of public policy" and called on conservatives, black and white, to "publicly disavow the racist ideology" his book espouses. "This is a moment of truth for the conservative movement as to where they stand on the issue of race," says Woodson. "The only time you hear from white conservatives...