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...Angeles writer and social commentator Karen Grigsby Bates in the TIME forum of opinions on the "trial of the century." She said Fred Goldman, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman, "brought the Holocaust" into the trial. Goldman was reacting with justifiable outrage to Johnnie Cochran's likening Mark Fuhrman to Hitler. Even though Bates said Goldman has the right to be hurt by the loss of his son, she then characterized Goldman as manipulative when he "played the Holocaust card," as if this were all a game with no real issues and no real consequences. Bates revealed an astonishing...
...were trying to make the murders look like a Mafia hit. The defense tried unsuccessfully to block McCarthy's testimony on the ground that he has no experience in ballistics or wounds. "McCarthy," said Abramson, suggesting the witness may be something other than he appears, "is the prosecution's Fuhrman...
POLICE PROCEDURE. To blacks who read the acquittal as a righting of scales that had been weighted against them, the glaring injustice for O.J. was police negligence, not to mention Detective Mark Fuhrman's bigotry. Investigators came off looking like Keystone Kops, which will certainly prompt a new skepticism about police testimony in all sorts of proceedings. Suggests prominent San Francisco trial lawyer John Martel, a Simpson prosecution consultant: "Perhaps an enlightened society has to pay a price like that to learn of the depth and cost of police misconduct, not just in Los Angeles but elsewhere...
...list was too short. Fuhrman wasn't on it, and new rogues keep coming. Last month Detective William Jang was charged with offering to fix a case in exchange for a $3,000 bribe, and a grand jury began investigating Detective Raymond L. Doyle for allegedly forging a judge's name on a warrant. These are the sort of rogue-cop tricks Fuhrman boasted about in his interviews with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. Yet on the day of the O.J. verdict, when Chief Williams commented on the public's obvious loss of faith in his department, he could muster nothing...
...exactly? It would be good to hear the President blast Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams for failing to clean up the L.A.P.D.--the job he was expressly hired to do after Rodney King. It's Clinton, not the Attorney General, who should promise a thorough investigation of Mark Fuhrman and his boasts of police mistreatment of blacks. It is the President who should swipe at the "code of silence" too many cops embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often...