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...after Judge Ito decided not to allow the jury to hear most of the Mark Fuhrman tapes, Johnnie Cochran let his frustrations out. In a tense exchange, the lawyer angrily asked that Ito clarify and reconsider his ruling. "With all due respect, there are some parts that are incoherent," the Simpson defense attorney said. Huh? "Cochran is really on the edge of contempt," reports James Willwerth from the trial. "Ito's decision really angered him -- he has lost his normal sweet-talking, mildly blustery salesman's pose. But you don't call a sitting judge's writing's incoherent." Testimony...
...Fuhrman by Ken Lubas-Pool Holbrooke by Ivan Multinovic/Reuters Punjab by Kamal Kishore/Reuters France by Jack Dabaghian/Reuters Bernardo by Greig Reekie/Toronto Sun Liberia by Jean Marc Bouju/AP World War II by AP/File Turner by Ted Thai for TIME
Judge Ito emerged from his chambers this evening with a middle-ground solution to the Mark Fuhrman problem: allow the Simpson jury to hear just a smattering of the former LAPD detective's racially-charged, taped remarks. Among them are two instances in which Fuhrman says the word "nigger," despite having testified that he had not used the slur in a decade. But Ito barred the defense from using any of Fuhrman's 18 statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer...
When it comes to Fuhrman, Los Angeles correspondent Sylvester Monroe reports, "everyone is running for the tall grass." Today, Robert Tourtelot, Fuhrman's attorney, held a press conference to tell the world that he had dropped his friendless client because he was "profoundly disgusted and horrified" by the racial slurs and personal philosophy contained on tapes of the former LAPD detective. "This is simply a matter of trying to get away from the taint of Fuhrman," says Monroe. "But it's a bit disingenuous. All of these people, from Marcia Clark to the Los Angeles Police Department, knew about Fuhrman...
...Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said the tapes made him "sick." District Attorney Gil Garcetti said they "embarrassed" him, and Police Chief Willie Williams said he was going to comb the LAPD for Fuhrman-like cops and -- somehow -- get rid of them. "The politicians are saying what they have to say, but blacks here don't believe a word of it," reports TIME's Sylvestor Monroe from Los Angeles. "No one in the black community is shocked or horrified at the tapes. They know nothing has changed in Los Angeles since Rodney King. Fuhrman just confirms...