Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judge Lance Ito decided to instruct the jurors that they could take into account ex-detective Mark Fuhrman's "unavailability" to testify a second time. Even without telling the jurors that Fuhrman had invoked the Fifth Amendment, calling attention to his absence could further raise their suspicion of him. Prosecutor Marcia Clark appealed the ruling and, in a surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions. Now it is unclear whether the defense will continue fighting to have Ito make some reference to Fuhrman. Still, the prosecution is scrambling. "The prosecution's case...
...Helen Dickey, who was then Chelsea Clinton's babysitter. The White House has offered D'Amato a sworn statement from Dickey in which she describes learning of Foster's suicide late that night and discussing it with a state trooper at the Governor's mansion in Arkansas. Deputy Whitewater prosecutor John Bates said today that the investigation of Foster's death continues...
...rumors are that the information concerns the credibility of the prosecution: "It allegedly concerns a claim that a member of the prosecution team lied to the judge in chambers about what Mark Fuhrman said during a prosecution rehearsal of his testimony." If the witness were to testify that a prosecutor had lied to the judge, the impact on the Simpson case could be critical. Today, glove expert Richard Rubin testified that the gloves worn by O.J. Simpson in videotapes of football games are the same size and rare model as the bloody gloves found at the crime scene...
...overturn an appeals court ruling last week that instructed Ito not to tell the jury that Fuhrman was unavailable to testify further. The Perry Mason-like ploy of bringing in the mystery witness is highly unusual in real cases. But if the witness were to testify that a prosecutor had lied to the judge, the impact on the Simpson case could be critical...
...federal judge threw out a fraud indictment against Governor Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas, the most prominent figure snared in the Whitewater investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "This is a major blow to Starr," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions...