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CHAPTER 9: THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY: MARK FUHRMAN’S FELONY CONVICTION

1
. PBS
Frontline
: “The O.J. Verdict.” Available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/view/.

2
.   BBC, “On This Day, 1995: O. J. Simpson verdict ‘Not guilty.’” Available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_2486000/2486673.stm.

3
.   See, e.g., Michael Sneed,
Chicago Sun-Times
, September 27, 1995; Timothy Appleby,
“Mistrust of Police Simpson’s Big Hope,” (Canada)
Globe and Mail
, September 25, 1995.

4
.   See, e.g., Will Bunch, “The Great Divide,”
Philadelphia Daily News
, October 4, 1995.

5
.   Bill Smith, “Moment in Time: Verdict Broadcast Grips St. Louis,” (Missouri)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, October 4, 1995.

6
.   “Students Charged in Attack after O.J. Verdict Read,” (Missouri)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, October 6, 1995.

7
.   “Racial Division Appears Deep at O.J. Verdict,” (Tennessee)
Chattanooga Free Press
, October 4, 1995.

8
.   “O.J. Verdict Sparks Beating in Colo.,” United Press International, October 6, 1995.

9
.   Mark Fuhrman,
Murder in Brentwood
(Regnery Publishing, 1997) at 122–23.

10
. Fuhrman,
Murder in Brentwood
at 268–71.

11
. “Sex in Sacramento,”
Newsweek,
April 3, 1995.

12
. Cochran compared Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler, saying:

“There was another man, not too long ago in the world, who had those same views, who wanted to burn people, who had racist views and ultimately had power over people in his country. People didn’t care. People said, ‘He’s just crazy, he’s just a half-baked painter.’ And they didn’t do anything about it. This man, this scourge, became one of the worst people in the history of this world, Adolf Hitler, because people didn’t care or didn’t try to stop him. He had the power over his racism.”
Nightline,
ABC News, September 28, 1995.

13
. Fox Butterfield, “A Portrait of the Detective in the ‘O. J. Whirlpool,’”
New York Times
, March 2, 1996.

14
. Butterfield, “A Portrait of the Detective in the ‘O. J. Whirlpool.’”

15
. Ibid.

16
. “Panel Discussion on the Perjury Trial of Former Los Angeles Detective Mark Fuhrman,”
Rivera Live
, CNBC, October 2, 1996.

17
. “Simpson Jurors Speak Out on How They Reached a Verdict,” ABC News, October 4, 1995.

18
. “Fuhrman Plea-Bargain an Outrage That Taints Criminal Justice System,” (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Sun-Sentinel
, October 4, 1996.

19
. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Tap on Wrist,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, October 4, 1996.

20
. “Fuhrman Plea Is a Travesty,”
Florida Times-Union
(Jacksonville), October 4, 1996.

21
. “Disgraced Cop in Simpson Case Deserved Jail,”
Buffalo News
(New York), October 4, 1996.

22
. “Editorial: Mark Fuhrman, His Own Tangled Web,” (Durham, NC)
Herald-Sun
, October 4, 1996.

23
. “Another Injustice from O.J. Simpson’s Murder Trial,” (Idaho)
Lewiston Morning Tribune
, October 5, 1996.

24
. William Raspberry, “Justice Deferred and Denied,”
Washington Post,
October 07, 1996.

25
. Carl T. Rowan, “A Slap on the Wrist,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, October 6, 1996.

26
. “Ex-Juror Predicts Simpson Deadlock; Court Investigates Allegations That Panel Improperly Discussed Case,” Washington Post, April 7, 1995.

27
.
“Excerpts of Testimony Given by Dismissed Juror to Judge Ito,” Associated Press, April 13, 1995.

28
. Bob Pool and Amy Pyle, “Case Was Weak, Race Not Factor, Two Jurors Say,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 5, 1995.

29
. “Will the Real Mark Fuhrman Stand Up?”
The Geraldo Rivera Show
, April 23, 1997.

30
. “Fred, Patti and Kim Goldman Discuss the Simpson Trials and Their New Book,”
Rivera Live
, February 17, 1997.

31
. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Perjury Revisited,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, October 4, 1996.

32
. “Fuhrman Plea-Bargain an Outrage.”

33
. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Tap on Wrist.”

34
. Editorial: “Fuhrman’s Price for Perjury Doesn’t Cover the Harm Done,” (Indiana)
South Bend Tribune
, October 13, 1996.

35
. Editorial: “Mark Fuhrman, His Own Tangled Web.”

36
. See, e.g., Rowan, “A Slap on the Wrist” (“The judge in the civil trial now will probably find it impossible to deny Simpson’s lawyers the right to tell the jury about Fuhrman’s role in citing alleged evidence of Simpson’s guilt.”)

37
. Stuart Taylor Jr., “Prosecute Him for Perjury?”
Legal Times,
February 10, 1997.

38
. “The Tale of the Tape: O.J. Speaks, Panelists Discuss Simpson’s Just-Released Videotape Proclaiming His Innocence,” The
Geraldo Rivera Show
, February 22, 1996.

39
. “Panel Discussion on the O.J. Simpson Criminal Trial,”
Rivera Live
, CNBC, May 28, 1996.

CHAPTER 10: POST-OJ VERDICT: PARADISE

1
. See, e.g., Jeff Jacoby, “Bradley’s Homage to a Race-Baiter,”
Boston Globe,
December 6, 1999.

2
.   See, e.g., Jay Nordlinger, Power Dem; The strange rise of a hatemonger, National Review, March 20, 2000.

3
.   Michael Slackman and Marjorie Connelly, “Sharpton Claims Success But Reassesses,”
New York Times,
March 3, 2004.

4
.   See, e.g., “Dean Bears Brunt of Opponents’ Vitriol in Debate Aimed at Minority Voters,” The Bulletin’s Frontrunner, January 12, 2004.

5
.   Gayle White, “Yale Roommate Vouches for Dean on Race,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, January 15, 2004.

6
.   Dudley Clendinen, “U.S. a Cathedral for Jackson Speech,”
New York Times,
July 19, 1984.

7
.   “Decision 2000: Democratic National Convention,” MSNBC, August 15, 2000.

8
.   See, e.g., Larry McShane, “After a Decade, the Tawana Brawley Case Goes to Court,” Associated Press, November 9, 1997.

9
.   Ronald Sullivan, “Defendant Told of Jogger Rape, Detective Says,”
New York Times
, November 28, 1990. 

10
. Cathy Connors, “Tawana’s Team Sued for 30 Mil,”
New York Amsterdam News
, March 2, 1996.

11
. Alan Feuer, “Adviser in Tawana Brawley Case Pays Off Defamation Award,”
New York Times
, November 7, 2001. (“Mr. Sharpton paid off the judgment against him
in June with the help of a group of supporters that included Percy E. Sutton, the former Manhattan borough president, the lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. and Earl Graves Jr., the president of Black Enterprise magazine. [T]he check that satisfied Mr. Maddox’s debt was signed by John Beatty, the owner of the Cotton Club, a nightclub in Harlem.…”)

12
. Fred Siegel,
The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life
(Encounter Books, 2006) at 104.

13
. Ibid.

14
.
Turnaround
: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
(Random House, 1998),
chapter one
at http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bratton-turnaround.html.

15
. Siegel,
The Prince of the City
at 104.

16
. Alison Mitchell, “With Defense of Police at Mosque, Giuliani Moves to Isolate 2 Critics,”
New York Times,
January 15, 1994.

17
. James C. McKinley Jr., “Praise of Innis Wins Rebuke for Giuliani,”
New York Times
, January 22, 1994.

18
. Editorial: “Tests for Mr. Giuliani,
New York Times
, January 18, 1994.

19
. Clifford Krauss, “New York City Crime Falls But Just Why Is a Mystery,”
New York Times
, January 1, 1995.

20
. “Editorial: Re-Elect Mayor Giuliani,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1997.

21
. Chris Matthews, “Cheap, Plentiful Gas and an SUV in Every Garage: Do Americans Want It All for Nothing?” MSNBC:
Hardball
, May 18, 2001.

22
. James Traub, “Giuliani Internalized,”
New York Times
, February 11, 2001.

CHAPTER 11: LIBERALS ARE THE NEW BLACKS

1
. Neil J. Young, “Equal Rights, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church,”
New York Times
, June 13, 2012.

2
.   Judge H. Lee Sarokin, a Democratic-appointed federal judge, ruled that discrimination against smelly, frightening homeless people violated the equal protection clause because it had a “disparate impact” on people who refuse to bathe compared to those who bathe regularly.
Kreimer v.
Bureau of Police for the Town of Morristown
, 765 F. SUPP. 181 (D.N.J. 1991), REV’D, 958 F.2D 1242 (3RD CIR. 1992).

3
.   Peter Singer,
Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002) at 80.

4
.   U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Charge Statistics
FY 1997 Through FY 2011, available at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/charges.cfm.

5
.   Jonathan Rauch, “Offices and Gentlemen,”
New Republic
, June 23, 1997, citing Walter K. Olson,
The Excuse Factory
(Free Press, 1997).

6
.   
Brown Transport Corp. v. Commonwealth
, 578 A.2d 555, 562 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1990). 

7
.   Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights Report, Spring 1994, at 2.

8
.   See, e.g., Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito. “After His Toughest Week, Bush Comes Out Fighting,” Economist.Com, November 2, 2005.

“The left will portray [Alito] as out of the mainstream, in favour of weakening the ability of women and minorities to seek protection in America’s civil-rights laws and, of course, chipping away at a woman’s right to an abortion. The case that will receive the most scrutiny is
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
, in which Mr. Alito voted to uphold a requirement that would have forced women to notify their husbands (in most cases) before getting an abortion”; “Alito Pick Stirs Passions,”
Contra Costa Times
(California), November 1, 2005. “‘Alito’s confirmation could shift the court in a direction that threatens to eviscerate the core protections for women’s freedom guaranteed by
Roe v. Wade
, or overturn the landmark decision altogether,’ NARAL President Nancy Keenan said.”; Jonathan Riskind and Jack Torry, “Fight Brewing over Nominee,”
Columbus Dispatch
(Ohio), November 1, 2005 “Senate Democrats and civil-rights and abortion-rights organizations denounced the Alito nomination, pointing out that he has a reputation for having one of the most conservative legal minds on the federal bench. He voted in 1991 to uphold most of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law, including a requirement that a woman needed to inform her husband before having an abortion.”

9
.   David M. Halbfinger, “Kerry Is Grilled on Gay Marriage and Attacks Bush on Sept. 11 Commission,”
New York Times
, March 8, 2004.

10
. Peter Brimelow,
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster
(Harper Perennial, 1996).

11
. See George J. Borjas, “Immigrants In, Wages Down—How to Do the Figuring,”
National Review,
May 8, 2006.

12
. National Center for Education Statistics, “Fast Facts: Dropout Rates,” citing U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2011,
The Condition of Education 2011
(NCES 2011-033), Indicator 20, available at http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16.

13
. Cord Jefferson, “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America,” February 10, 2010.

14
.
Anderson Cooper: 360
, CNN, April 11, 2006.

15
. Richard Perez-Pena, “70 Abortion Law: New York Said Yes, Stunning the Nation,”
New York Times
, April 9, 2000.

16
.
Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic
, 506 U.S. 263 (1993).

17
. Jennifer A. Dlouhy, “House Member’s Father Faces Stiff Judicial Confirmation Test,”
Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor
, October 29, 2001.

18
. Ana Radelat, “Opposition Grows to Bush Judicial Nominee,” Gannett News Service, October 24, 2001.

19
. Danny Hakim, “Spitzer Pushing Bill to Shore Up Abortion Rights,”
New York Times
, April 26, 2007.

20
. See
United States v. Morrison
, 529 U.S. 598 (2000).

21
. H. R. Conf. Rep. No. 103-711, at 385.

22
. Jan Vertefeuille, “Testing the Legal Limits,”
Roanoke Times
(Virginia), March 24, 1996.

23
. Jeremy Rabkin, “Christy on the Brink,”
American Spectator,
January 1997.

24
. Linda Greenhouse, “Battle on Federalism,”
New York Times
, May 17, 2000.

25
. Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1997 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus97.pdf;
Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1999 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus98.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2003 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0302.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2004 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0402.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0502.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2006 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0602.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0702.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2008 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0802.pdf.