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...question-and-answer period, D'Amato was asked about his imitation of the O.J. Simpson trial's Judge Lance Ito on a radio show, which many found racially offensive. "It was wrong. I apologize for it. I should have known better. It was racist. It was a poor attempt at humor," D'Amato said. "Part of life is also being big enough to admit when one makes an error and asking people to forgive them...
...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...
...leather gloves to DNA experts to Dr. Don Dutton, who according to Clark has conducted a study on "pre- and post-homicidal conduct of murdering spouses," to a flight attendant on Simpson's flight to Chicago. The defense has already found much to contest on this list. Still, Ito keeps trying to keep things moving. At one point, the judge sternly warned the lawyers, "Delay is something that will be anathema next week." Surely by now even the judge must realize that delay is, in fact, second nature...
...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 him to tell jurors about Fuhrman's "unavailability" to testify further. The decision left the defense team--which had been poised to end its case without putting Simpson on the stand--to ponder its next move...
...Simpson prosecution may conclude its rebuttal with FBI agent William Bodziak, who is back on the stand talking about shoes. The defense spent the weekend interviewing FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst. Judge Ito must decide if Whitehurst's allegations -- that another FBI agent who worked on the Simpson investigation gave false testimony to benefit the prosecution -- are relevant enough to be presented to the jury. Defense attorneys also hope to present potentially damaging evidence about Detective Phillip Vannatter. They claim Vannatter told a witness in another case that he believed Simpson to be a suspect even before police entered Simpson...