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Originally Posted by irishgrl
That "glove" demonstration was the most blatant bit of theatre in the whole mistrial..
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and yet the prosecution wasn't smart enough to realize that asking him to try them on would be a mistake. Anyone can make gloves look like they don't fit especially with an extra latex glove on. I am just refuting your original point that the prosecution was unjustly criticized. This combined with furman's lies was enough to trigger some folks "reasonable doubt" threshold and both were presented by the prosecution not the defense. I don't agree with these juror's conclusions but i can see their line of thinking that led them there.
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Originally Posted by irishgrl
What did Fuhrman "lie" about?.
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Using racial slurs to begin with.
Many of these jurors don't trust the police to begin with, so why would you put up a cop that is so easily made to look shady? a bad decision.
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Originally Posted by irishgrl
Regardless, the prosecution could have proved its case 10 times over and that jury would STILL have found him innocent. FACT.
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you can not call that a fact. I am sorry. The fact is the prosecution made many mistakes that contributed to the innocent verdict.
A sound prosecution certainly had a chance at getting a guilty verdict. The jurors could have been presented with a cohesive prosecution instead of the one they were presented.
Though i do think that the Judge allowed some things to happen that made the prosecutor's job very difficult, I believe it was their case to lose.
I have read Marcia's book as well as furman's, Darden's, shapiro's etc etc . . .just so you know that i am not just winging this.
It is their job to REACH the jury no matter who comprises that jury, not just the beverly hill type juries.
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Originally Posted by JWS
This is true. It was payback for Rodney King verdict.
Furman lied about having used negative racial lanquage.
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Well I certainly believe the city was bubbling with racial tension, but i still believe the jury could have been reached if the truth were presented in a better fashion. Though once again I feel the need to state that Judge Ito bears much of the responsibility for the verdict as well.