Word: fuhrmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt the defense was also delighted by the jurors' reactions. Ordinarily dazed and unreadable, they came to life last week. Upon hearing Fuhrman's ugly language, several jurors recoiled and scribbled furiously in their notebooks. Many of the nine African-American jurors looked enraged, while a white woman in the second row, usually placid, appeared upset...
They were denied, however, a final face-to-face encounter with Fuhrman. With the jury out of earshot, the former detective three times impassively invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self- incrimination, refusing to say whether his original testimony was "completely truthful...
...songcraft. On Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine he sings, banally, "If I had the chance, I'd treat her like a queen." And on one atypically crude song-whose title is too scatological to print here-the chorus consists of curses. It's a little like the Fuhrman tapes, with a beat...
...FUHRMAN TRIAL...
...murder trial of O.J. Simpson was once again awash in the racial animus of former L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman. A series of witnesses vividly testified before the jury about the detective's vocal hatred of blacks and his repeated use of the epithet nigger. Fuhrman was dramatically dragooned back into the courtroom, where (with the jury absent) he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination when asked about his truthfulness and the possible planting of evidence in the case. At the behest of the prosecution, an appeals court reversed a ruling issued by Judge Lance Ito that would have allowed...