Word: ito
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...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...
...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, no matter how surprised they now appear." Judge Ito, meanwhile, spent the day in his chambers to decide, sentence by sentence, whether the Simpson jury would hear portions of the tapes...
...Judge Ito will spend the next day or two in his chambers while he struggles to decide whether the jury will hear the Mark Fuhrman tapes. After both sides made their arguments this morning, he was clearly torn: "I need to sit down and look at each one of these individual situations and make the appropriate ruling," Ito said. Meanwhile, Elaine Lafferty reports, the prosecutors are wrestling with whether to distance itself from the embattled former detective. So far, they haven't. "They should move away from Fuhrman and, frankly, it is surprising to me that they've indicated that...
...credibility as a prosecution witness. Even prosecutor Marcia Clark was willing to stipulate, in return for keeping the tapes out of court, that he used the word nigger on three occasions in the past 10 years. And at worst, depending on what portions of the tapes, if any, Ito permits the jury to hear, Fuhrman has breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue...
There was high drama again at the endless-and, in recent weeks, tedious-O.J. Simpson murder trial. The possibility of a mistrial was raised when a visibly emotional Judge Lance Ito agreed with the prosecution that he might be unable to act impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses...