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...racist" cop who may have planted the bloody glove found in the area behind Simpson's guest house the day after the brutal slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Then came the disclaimer. "Race is not and will not be an issue in this defense," said Robert Shapiro, Simpson's lead attorney. "The only thing we are looking at is credibility of witnesses...
Maybe for Shapiro. But for nearly everyone else last week, the race issue emerged front and center in the Simpson case. After first focusing Americans' attention on the issue of domestic violence, the Simpson drama is being transformed into a national teach-in on the gulf that exists between black and white attitudes toward America's criminal-justice system. The shift came in a flurry of news leaks and public announcements. In raising questions about Fuhrman, the defense team unearthed a 1983 lawsuit, brought by the Los Angeles detective seeking disability benefits, in which he admitted to harboring hostile feelings...
...evidence in the Simpson case had been mishandled. Though most of the errors were minor (a container of bile temporarily mislabeled as urine), the admission presented an opening for the defense to press its contention that every step of the investigation has been sloppy. And press it did. Shapiro filed a motion charging investigators with failing to pursue witnesses and physical evidence that might buttress Simpson's claim of innocence...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias...