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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...
...victims of the Holocaust. "I understand that no particular race has a corner on misery," he told Time last week. Simpson lawyer Robert Shapiro told a friend he was unhappy about playing up the race issue. But Alan Dershowitz, famously sensitive to anti-Semitism, insists that for putting Fuhrman on the stand in the first place, "the prosecution is entirely to blame for introducing race into this case...
...search for a dozen unbiased jurors is certain to be more difficult than it was the first time. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti has promised to retry Simpson even if the jury votes 11 to 1 for acquittal. The seminars on dna evidence. The bloody glove. Mark Fuhrman. Kato Kaelin. Could there be anyone, anywhere, who would want to go through that again...
Clark, who has won 20 felony cases and has not lost one in almost 10 years, says the evidence against Simpson is as strong as any she has argued. But it took her too long to understand that Fuhrman's virulent racism, which she recognized early, could poison the entire prosecution case. "Marcia knew Fuhrman was a bad cop, but she felt certain he hadn't planted evidence," says a deputy district attorney in her office. "They felt they could use Fuhrman anyway. Well, you can't use a racist cop. If you know...