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...gotta get the families up here," she cried. Her sudden movement set the others talking or crying like a lot of windup toys. Bruce Jenner stared at the screen, muttering, "You got away with murder, you got away with murder" over and over. Deputy district attorney Yochelson blocked the television, saying to the group, "I want to tell all of you that we did the best we could. I am sorry. But I need to ask you all to please try and stay calm." Two young African-American D.A. assistants shook their heads. One of them wept quietly. "He never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING THE CASE | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...loner, in fact Darden likes to be surrounded by people. During the trial his clerks often took him out for a beer or would just sit in his office with him, saying nothing. The day the jury heard Fuhrman use the word nigger, deputy district attorney Alan Yochelson said, "Hey, Chris. Let's get outta here. Let's go work out." But at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Darden could barely concentrate on exercise. He sat on a bench in front of his locker, put his head down and kept saying, "I can't believe this. I can't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING THE CASE | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

Faced with what was probably to be an unsympathetic audience, it may not have been an advantage to Terry White, the soft-spoken, studious-looking lead prosecutor, that he was black. (Alan S. Yochelson, his co-prosecutor, was white.) Though the prosecutors objected strongly when it was first suggested that the trial be moved to Simi Valley, the pair acknowledged that they were powerless to reverse the judge's decision once it had been made. But they could take comfort from the fact that juries in Ventura County had decided against the police in three of the five police-brutality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of an Acquittal | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...husband-wife team of officers from the California Highway Patrol who were present at the beating. In contrast, the defense presented 49 witnesses, almost all of whom were police officers or experts on law enforcement who claimed that the defendants' conduct fell within L.A.P.D. guidelines. White and Yochelson also failed to call any of 30 civilian witnesses to the beating whose testimony might have contradicted that of the defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of an Acquittal | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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