Word: fuhrman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Petrocelli, lead lawyers for the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, who hope to hold O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths, expect to admit some 2,000 pieces of evidence, including the bloody glove. Nearly 350 witnesses will be called, including Kato Kaelin and Mark Fuhrman, though the judge has ruled that Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden will not testify. Both sides estimate that it will take at least four months to try the case. Then again, Simpson I was expected to last only six months, not the nine months it ultimately devoured...
...first feelings when I saw him, he sort of looked like a Ku Klux Klan or a skin-head with hair." Armanda Cooley, forewoman of the O.J. Simpson jury, describing how she felt upon first seeing Mark Fuhrman...
...victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds the videotape of the savage beating administered four years earlier to an unemployed black construction worker named Rodney King. One whiff of the foul odor of institutional racism--and retired detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness, stank to high heaven--and a case that many had thought unshakable became unmakable...
...client may or may not have got away with murder, during the Simpson trial Cochran, repeatedly and effectively, managed to get away with rhetorical arson. He ignited a battle with prosecutor Christopher Darden over the word "nigger." He dragged the ghost of Malcolm X into the courtroom by dubbing Fuhrman and detective Philip Vannatter "twin devils." By the end of the trial he had taken to showing up flanked by Nation of Islam bodyguards. And, to the horror even of some members of the defense team, he made the odious and hyperbolic comparison of Fuhrman and Adolf Hitler...
...that this was primarily due to the mishandling of the case by the Los Angeles Police Department. Whether Simpson is guilty, only he only he knows for sure. But given the multitude of mistakes made during the investigation and the blow to the prosecution of having Detective Mark Fuhrman perjure himself on the stand, was there any other verdict the jury could have returned? HEIDI R. HETTINGER, Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail