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...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...
...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...