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...past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense theory that Mark Furman was part of some racist conspiracy in the police department was effectively blunted when Furman came through Bailey's examination. The defense is trying anything they can to convince at least one of the black jurors that Furman is a racist and could have framed...
...year old Rhodes scholar, on Tuesday listened stone-faced to himself urge Beverly Heard to "tell me about a sex thing you did," and to set up a "threesome" with a 15-year old girl. The two-term African-American Democrat says he's being targeted by racist, politically-motivated forces. Heard's erratic behavior raised the tapes' importance to the prosection's case. If convicted on all counts, Reynolds could get 86 years in prison...
...managers in a web of in-house scandals and divisive controversies. The agency faces a class action by black agents who claim widespread discrimination and intimidation, including the posting at one office of a "State of Oklahoma Nigger Hunting License." Last week charges resurfaced that ATF agents attended a racist gathering in Tennessee, the annual "Good O' Boys Roundup." Agents complain too of a management culture that doles harsh discipline to agents but goes to great lengths to protect its managers. In one case, a former head of its Dallas office who sexually harassed an employee received a demotion...
...black agents say they in particular have experienced such behavior. Although the "Good O' Boys Roundup" made news last week, ATF's leadership has long known of the annual affair and its racist trappings. The black agents' class action cited the event as just one of dozens of racist incidents. Dondi Albritton, who heads the bureau's Explosives Technology branch in Washington and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said he once saw an invitation to the roundup that was printed on ATF letterhead and mailed in an ATF envelope. At this year's outing, racist slogans and T shirts...
...Heidstra earlier was the source of tense words betweendefense attorney Johnnie Cochranand prosecutor Christopher Darden after Darden asked him if one of the voices he had heard outside Nicole Simpson's house the night of the murders could have come from a black man. Cochran exploded, calling the question "racist" and demanding that it be struck from the record. The two lawyers, who have been at odds since Cochran suggested early in the trial that Darden was only on the prosecution's team to appeal to black jurors, quickly began arguing. Judge Lance Ito cleared the court, threatening to hold...