Word: fuhrman
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...starters, the defense is saying it may not be ready to rest this week. The defense at first thought it had won a key round when Judge Lance Ito decided to instruct the jurors that they could take into account ex-detective Mark Fuhrman's "unavailability" to testify a second time. Even without telling the jurors that Fuhrman had invoked the Fifth Amendment, calling attention to his absence could further raise their suspicion of him. Prosecutor Marcia Clark appealed the ruling and, in a surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions...
...chain reaction set off by Fuhrman's taped conversations with Laura Hart McKinny created unusually tense and tendentious proceedings last week, both in and out of court. Last Wednesday, for the first time, the L.A. County courthouse was picketed in O.J. Simpson's defense. During a noontime rally by the N.A.A.C.P., demonstrators chanted, "No justice, no peace," waving placards that attacked the prosecution's evidence, the L.A.P.D.'s tactics and Ito's ruling on the tapes. "We are not deaf, dumb, stupid, blind or living in denial," declared protester Morris Griffin. "We have seen this case. We have seen contamination...
...emotions of the players inside Ito's courtroom were only slightly less inflamed. Although disappointed that Ito would allow the jury to sample just two morsels from the Fuhrman tapes, the defense roared back with a potent parade of witnesses. Kathleen Bell, who claims she met Fuhrman at a Marine recruiting station in the mid-1980s, testified that he said, "If I had my way, all the niggers would be gathered together and burned." Natalie Singer, who met Fuhrman and his partner in a hospital emergency room, said he told her, "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." Roderic...
...were, cross-examining them only briefly. But with McKinny, prosecutor Christopher Darden set himself up for what defense attorney Johnnie Cochran later termed "another glove day"--a reference to the prosecution's disastrous move to have Simpson try on the leather glove found at the crime scene. "When Mark Fuhrman used those words in your presence," Darden asked, "why didn't you tell him to stop?" McKinny replied: "For the same reasons I didn't tell him to stop when he told me of other procedures, cover-ups." The jury was left to contemplate just what she meant by "cover...
...unidentified, last-minute witness they claim can offer "startling" information. James Willwerth reports from the trial that rumors are that the information concerns the credibility of the prosecution: "It allegedly concerns a claim that a member of the prosecution team lied to the judge in chambers about what Mark Fuhrman said during a prosecution rehearsal of his testimony." If the witness were to testify that a prosecutor had lied to the judge, the impact on the Simpson case could be critical. Today, glove expert Richard Rubin testified that the gloves worn by O.J. Simpson in videotapes of football games...