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Rahman: The media and the press in general in the U.S. are racist. They are very nationalistic, and they are controlled. It is clear that the media are against Islam. During the trial, anything that was favorable to the defense was never published. Anything against the defendants was amplified and covered comprehensively...
...death, the families of the victims wept. But what may make more of a difference to the verdict is what happened when defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. gave his summation a day earlier. When he reminded the mostly black jury of how often African Americans have been mistreated by racist police, one of the black jurors seemed on the verge of tears...
...already had. In a case in which Fuhrman's racist monologues could have provided a voice-over for the Rodney King beating tape, it wasn't possible to forget race. "The best thing that could come out of this trial is O.J.'s being found not guilty because the jury believes that there was some type of frame-up," says Anthony Taylor, 36, a black Chicago paralegal who carpools to work with a white woman and often discusses the case during their ride. "It would shed light on the racial problems not only in various police departments...
...virulent racism, which she recognized early, could poison the entire prosecution case. "Marcia knew Fuhrman was a bad cop, but she felt certain he hadn't planted evidence," says a deputy district attorney in her office. "They felt they could use Fuhrman anyway. Well, you can't use a racist cop. If you know you got a bad cop on your case, you drop...
Clark dropped Fuhrman hard in her closing remarks when she vehemently rejected him as a racist who had lied on the stand. But it may have been too late to save her case. For his part, Cochran denies that in his summation he was urging "jury nullification"--proposing that jurors set aside the evidence to make their decision on another basis. "What we said is that in this case, where there is such a reasonable doubt, for the prosecution to prevail each link in the chain of things has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt," he explains. "They didn...