1 00:00:06,236 --> 00:00:07,692 [news anchor] Today in trial O.J., lawyers argued 2 00:00:07,779 --> 00:00:10,441 over whether the former Heisman winner 3 00:00:10,615 --> 00:00:13,277 is an arthritic cripple incapable of murder. 4 00:00:13,535 --> 00:00:17,369 He has bad knees, arthritis, and limited mobility. 5 00:00:17,497 --> 00:00:20,580 He may look like Tarzan, but he moves like Tarzan 's grandfather. 6 00:00:21,376 --> 00:00:24,334 [news anchor] After that, the jury got a peek at an exercise video, 7 00:00:24,462 --> 00:00:27,295 Simpson taped just two weeks before the murder. 8 00:00:27,382 --> 00:00:28,747 [0.J.] Bring it all the way down. 9 00:00:28,967 --> 00:00:30,332 Feel it in the knees. 10 00:00:30,468 --> 00:00:31,674 [phone ringing] 11 00:00:31,761 --> 00:00:33,092 Love that intensity. 12 00:00:34,681 --> 00:00:35,716 [Laura] Hello? 13 00:00:35,807 --> 00:00:38,298 -Is this Laura Hart McKinney? -Yes. How may I help you? 14 00:00:38,393 --> 00:00:40,554 The Laura Hart McKinney who used to live in Los Angeles 15 00:00:40,645 --> 00:00:42,601 who has tapes of LAPD Officer Mark Fuhrman? 16 00:00:45,233 --> 00:00:46,598 How did you find me? 17 00:00:46,693 --> 00:00:48,854 I'm an investigator working for 0.J. Simpson. 18 00:00:49,487 --> 00:00:52,570 We believe our client is innocent. And your tapes could really help him. 19 00:00:52,824 --> 00:00:54,234 Well, I don't want to help him. 20 00:00:54,450 --> 00:00:56,816 Look. l was just writing a screenplay, 21 00:00:57,829 --> 00:01:01,913 about the LAPD. I met Mark and I interviewed him for research. 22 00:01:02,333 --> 00:01:04,073 So there are tapes. What does he say? 23 00:01:04,419 --> 00:01:05,579 How inflammatory is it? 24 00:01:06,921 --> 00:01:08,457 I never asked to be a part of this. 25 00:01:08,548 --> 00:01:09,913 [hung up] 26 00:01:16,806 --> 00:01:18,342 So on the night of the murders, 27 00:01:18,433 --> 00:01:20,674 you were in an alleyway behind Bundy Drive 28 00:01:20,768 --> 00:01:23,510 and you heard a commotion near Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium? 29 00:01:23,813 --> 00:01:26,099 Yes. I heard two men arguing. 30 00:01:26,649 --> 00:01:28,560 The first man said, "Hey, hey, hey!" 31 00:01:29,193 --> 00:01:30,774 And the second man yelled at him. 32 00:01:31,446 --> 00:01:32,902 He was hard to understand. 33 00:01:33,031 --> 00:01:36,023 Did the second voice sound as if it was older, more mature than the- 34 00:01:36,117 --> 00:01:38,028 Grounds for speculation, Your Honor. 35 00:01:38,244 --> 00:01:39,609 Sustained. Foundational. 36 00:01:40,747 --> 00:01:41,862 All right then. 37 00:01:43,041 --> 00:01:46,499 The second voice you heard, it sounded like a black man. Is that correct? 38 00:01:46,586 --> 00:01:49,043 -0bject to, Your Honor. I object. -Sustained. 39 00:01:49,339 --> 00:01:51,045 -This is ridiculous. -Sustained. 40 00:01:51,132 --> 00:01:52,838 Mr. Darden, where are you going with this? 41 00:01:52,925 --> 00:01:55,462 Your Honor, l was asking in good faith. 42 00:01:55,928 --> 00:01:58,135 We know that the witness told the friend that he heard 43 00:01:58,264 --> 00:02:00,505 an angry yell of an older man, who sounded black. 44 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,340 I resent that statement, Your Honor. 45 00:02:02,435 --> 00:02:04,847 You cannot tell by somebody's voice whether they are black. 46 00:02:04,937 --> 00:02:06,598 That is a racist statement. 47 00:02:06,689 --> 00:02:08,429 And entirely inappropriate. 48 00:02:08,524 --> 00:02:11,357 I am offended, that in America, 49 00:02:11,611 --> 00:02:16,025 in 1995 that we have to endure this kind of thinking. 50 00:02:20,119 --> 00:02:22,531 All right. I didn't make the statement. The witness did. 51 00:02:22,622 --> 00:02:24,112 Oh, please, Mr. Darden. 52 00:02:28,753 --> 00:02:30,209 But that is what you're suggesting. 53 00:02:30,296 --> 00:02:32,378 -[Johnnie] I suggested nothing. -Well, yes, you did. 54 00:02:32,465 --> 00:02:33,705 Don't put words in my mouth. 55 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,042 You have created a lot of problems for myself and for my family. 56 00:02:37,136 --> 00:02:40,128 You continually make statements about me and race, Mr. Cochran. 57 00:02:40,223 --> 00:02:42,839 Wait. Stop it both of you. This is all improper. 58 00:02:43,017 --> 00:02:44,678 And I'm so mad at both of you right now 59 00:02:44,769 --> 00:02:46,634 I'm about to hold the two of you in contempt. 60 00:02:47,563 --> 00:02:49,599 Let's take a recess so you can cool off. 61 00:02:49,899 --> 00:02:51,639 And we'll resume in fifteen. 62 00:02:51,734 --> 00:02:52,940 [gavel banging] 63 00:03:04,288 --> 00:03:05,744 What was that? 64 00:03:06,374 --> 00:03:07,705 He is so cynical. 65 00:03:07,792 --> 00:03:10,283 I mean, of course, there is such a thing as a black voice. 66 00:03:10,461 --> 00:03:11,917 There are accents, speech patterns. 67 00:03:12,004 --> 00:03:13,665 I know that. But look what happened. 68 00:03:13,756 --> 00:03:16,463 His witness was failing so Johnnie threw a racial stink bomb 69 00:03:16,551 --> 00:03:20,009 to deflect attention. That guy saw a Bronco near Bundy. 70 00:03:20,847 --> 00:03:22,883 He heard two men arguing outside the condo, 71 00:03:22,974 --> 00:03:25,841 but now the jury has completely forgotten that. 72 00:03:31,774 --> 00:03:32,763 Is it true? 73 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:36,226 Yeah. The tapes exist. 74 00:03:37,155 --> 00:03:38,486 And they're really ugly. 75 00:03:38,573 --> 00:03:40,154 They have phrases like... 76 00:03:43,494 --> 00:03:44,654 Stuff like... 77 00:03:45,663 --> 00:03:47,745 Get niggers. Frame niggers. 78 00:03:48,166 --> 00:03:49,326 Plant evidence. 79 00:03:50,042 --> 00:03:52,658 Jesus Christ. Can we confirm the authenticity? 80 00:03:52,795 --> 00:03:54,581 I've asked around. Her lawyers have shot 81 00:03:54,672 --> 00:03:57,254 the tapes to London papers, TV tabloids. 82 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,085 They've heard snippets. 83 00:03:59,302 --> 00:04:00,917 Supposedly there's an offer on the table 84 00:04:01,012 --> 00:04:02,297 for two hundred and fifty grand. 85 00:04:02,638 --> 00:04:03,627 Why didn't she sell? 86 00:04:03,723 --> 00:04:04,803 [Bob] That's the strange part. 87 00:04:04,891 --> 00:04:06,597 She doesn't actually care about the money. 88 00:04:06,684 --> 00:04:08,720 She'd rather sell her screenplay. 89 00:04:08,811 --> 00:04:09,971 Hmmm. 90 00:04:10,062 --> 00:04:13,350 She's a screenwriter. Or, well, a wannabe screenwriter. 91 00:04:13,441 --> 00:04:14,647 She was living in LA. 92 00:04:14,859 --> 00:04:17,271 She couldn't make a living so she moved to North Carolina 93 00:04:17,361 --> 00:04:18,396 to teach screenwriting. 94 00:04:18,488 --> 00:04:20,570 I don't understand. How can you teach screenwriting 95 00:04:20,656 --> 00:04:22,066 if you can't sell a script? 96 00:04:22,617 --> 00:04:24,278 [indistinct chatter] 97 00:04:24,702 --> 00:04:26,988 Gentlemen, you are missing the point. 98 00:04:27,121 --> 00:04:29,237 I don't care who she is or what she does. 99 00:04:29,332 --> 00:04:32,745 What matters are these tapes. We must get them. 100 00:04:33,377 --> 00:04:36,744 Get niggers? Frame niggers? That takes my breath away. 101 00:04:37,173 --> 00:04:40,210 These tapes will allow Mr. Simpson to walk free. 102 00:04:40,802 --> 00:04:44,795 Let's not get too cocky. I mean, we haven't heard them. 103 00:04:47,183 --> 00:04:49,265 Look, lucky breaks don't just fall from the sky. 104 00:04:49,352 --> 00:04:51,092 Yes, they do, Mr. Scheck. 105 00:04:52,772 --> 00:04:54,478 God brought us these tapes. 106 00:04:54,607 --> 00:04:56,893 There is something much larger at play here. 107 00:04:57,151 --> 00:05:00,063 This is manna from heaven. 108 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,701 What is the defense doing? 109 00:05:12,792 --> 00:05:14,657 They got Ito to sign a subpoena for what? 110 00:05:15,002 --> 00:05:17,084 Thirteen hours of tape in North Carolina. 111 00:05:17,505 --> 00:05:20,212 I don't follow. Who is this woman? 112 00:05:20,716 --> 00:05:22,672 ltjust makes no sense why Fuhrman would blab 113 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,125 to an unemployed screenwriter. 114 00:05:24,220 --> 00:05:25,426 Why would Fuhrman do anything? 115 00:05:25,513 --> 00:05:27,299 I'm not going to pretend like I'm surprised. 116 00:05:27,974 --> 00:05:30,056 Whatever's on these tapes scares me. 117 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,266 Maybe it's meritless. Fiction. 118 00:05:32,353 --> 00:05:34,139 Just Fuhrman and his writer playacting. 119 00:05:34,230 --> 00:05:35,310 Hmmm. 120 00:05:35,398 --> 00:05:37,980 The defense has been obsessed with creating stories for the jury 121 00:05:38,067 --> 00:05:40,353 and lawyers resort to stories to distract from the fact- 122 00:05:40,444 --> 00:05:43,402 You know, Marcia, people like stories. It helps them make sense of things. 123 00:05:50,288 --> 00:05:51,323 Shit. 124 00:05:53,291 --> 00:05:54,827 I don't like the book Chosen. 125 00:05:55,418 --> 00:05:58,751 Now who can deny there isn't a higher power watching over us. 126 00:05:58,921 --> 00:06:00,252 [all applauding] 127 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,126 I spent my life fighting for a cause 128 00:06:03,301 --> 00:06:05,212 and then in the biggest case of all time, 129 00:06:05,303 --> 00:06:06,634 with the whole world watching, 130 00:06:06,888 --> 00:06:08,469 a magical piece of paper appears. 131 00:06:09,181 --> 00:06:10,671 We still need to get a judge 132 00:06:10,766 --> 00:06:13,052 in North Carolina to enforce the subpoena. 133 00:06:13,144 --> 00:06:15,430 A small technicality. I will venture forth 134 00:06:15,521 --> 00:06:16,681 to secure our bounty. 135 00:06:16,772 --> 00:06:18,308 Well. Obviously I will accompany you. 136 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:21,516 I mean, I discovered Fuhrman, for God's sake. I invented him. 137 00:06:21,777 --> 00:06:24,484 Hang on, Bob. lwon every Fuhrman motion. 138 00:06:24,614 --> 00:06:26,696 Gentlemen, we still have a case here in LA. 139 00:06:26,824 --> 00:06:30,191 I don't understand. Why do more than two people have to get on the plane? 140 00:06:30,328 --> 00:06:32,990 Then it should be me. I have a winning record in thatjurisdiction. 141 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,786 I've tried over two hundred cases there. 142 00:06:34,957 --> 00:06:36,993 Two hundred? Really? When? 143 00:06:40,463 --> 00:06:41,703 Seems like yesterday. 144 00:06:42,548 --> 00:06:46,666 But understand this. Things change really slowly down south 145 00:06:47,011 --> 00:06:48,672 and I know the Carolinas 146 00:06:49,138 --> 00:06:52,801 like I know the caramel color in a single barrel apple brandy 147 00:06:53,559 --> 00:06:56,175 sipped over the blush of the morning sunrise. 148 00:06:57,146 --> 00:07:00,309 Oh, come on. Really? I hired all of you. 149 00:07:01,317 --> 00:07:03,979 You know, whatever. I don't grovel. 150 00:07:04,654 --> 00:07:07,145 Make sure you put my name on the brief. 151 00:07:07,531 --> 00:07:08,737 Thank you, Bob. 152 00:07:08,824 --> 00:07:10,234 [airplane engine rewing] 153 00:07:18,292 --> 00:07:19,782 [birds chirping] 154 00:07:23,172 --> 00:07:25,163 -This is it. -All right, let's go. 155 00:07:31,889 --> 00:07:33,220 Here are the transcripts. 156 00:07:36,227 --> 00:07:37,763 The judge'll see you gentlemen shortly. 157 00:07:37,895 --> 00:07:38,884 Thank you. 158 00:07:40,982 --> 00:07:44,474 -My friend, I can taste victory. -Yes. Yes. 159 00:07:45,361 --> 00:07:46,692 -Shall we? -Yes. 160 00:07:46,821 --> 00:07:48,152 [slow music] 161 00:08:23,691 --> 00:08:25,477 It's unbelievable. It's horrible. 162 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:29,603 Horrible we can sell. Look the bastard is nailed. Dead. 163 00:08:29,864 --> 00:08:33,903 He directly contradicts the trap I laid when he testified. 164 00:08:33,993 --> 00:08:37,952 Lee, it's more than that. It's evil. 165 00:08:40,374 --> 00:08:44,458 But this is what black people have always known. 166 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:50,211 And now, it's right here. For everyone to hear. 167 00:08:57,516 --> 00:08:59,006 Your Honor, it would be a travesty 168 00:08:59,101 --> 00:09:01,763 if these tapes were not allowed into the 0.J. Simpson trial. 169 00:09:02,021 --> 00:09:04,728 These tapes are tangible evidence 170 00:09:04,815 --> 00:09:07,807 of the Los Angeles Police Department's racism. 171 00:09:08,611 --> 00:09:11,774 They are a revelation of truth. 172 00:09:12,823 --> 00:09:15,690 -May I approach the bench, Your Honor? -No, you cannot. 173 00:09:21,165 --> 00:09:25,033 Your Honor, with all due respect, we ask you to enforce the subpoena 174 00:09:25,127 --> 00:09:28,870 and compel Ms. McKinney to turn over the tapes. It is important. 175 00:09:29,590 --> 00:09:30,705 It is imperative. 176 00:09:31,092 --> 00:09:35,552 It is indispensable that we return them to California. 177 00:09:36,263 --> 00:09:37,423 Thank you, Your Honor. 178 00:09:39,183 --> 00:09:41,674 Mr. Cochran, there are no TV cameras in my courtroom. 179 00:09:42,478 --> 00:09:45,345 There is no need for gratuitous alliteration. 180 00:09:46,273 --> 00:09:50,516 Your request is denied. These tapes are not material to your case. 181 00:09:51,445 --> 00:09:52,730 [gavel banging] 182 00:09:53,239 --> 00:09:56,652 Who is that man to say that they're not relevant? 183 00:09:57,409 --> 00:10:02,654 Those tapes are proof of the systematic civil rights violations, 184 00:10:02,748 --> 00:10:04,784 what black people have always known 185 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:06,706 and what white people have never understood. 186 00:10:06,794 --> 00:10:10,332 Johnnie, calm down. We'll just file an emergency appeal. 187 00:10:10,548 --> 00:10:13,381 And this time, let me do the talking. 188 00:10:13,467 --> 00:10:14,456 What? 189 00:10:14,552 --> 00:10:17,089 Mr. Cochran, take a good look where you're standing. 190 00:10:17,513 --> 00:10:18,798 We're in the south. 191 00:10:19,473 --> 00:10:20,633 Haven't you noticed the smell 192 00:10:20,724 --> 00:10:23,056 of mint julep and condescension in the air? 193 00:10:23,561 --> 00:10:27,304 Right behind you there's a statue of a confederate soldier holding a rifle. 194 00:10:27,773 --> 00:10:32,312 With all due respect, I don't know if you play as well in Dixie. 195 00:10:33,195 --> 00:10:34,526 [sighs] 196 00:10:36,490 --> 00:10:41,075 Your Honors, may I say what a great pleasure it is be practicing law, 197 00:10:41,162 --> 00:10:43,949 once again in the great state of North Carolina. 198 00:10:44,790 --> 00:10:47,406 My heart gladdens with the promise of justice 199 00:10:47,501 --> 00:10:50,493 when I stand in one of the original thirteen colonies. 200 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:54,084 From the great Smoky Mountains, to the Pimlico Sound 201 00:10:54,675 --> 00:10:57,508 I know that fair consideration will be offered to all 202 00:10:57,595 --> 00:11:00,758 who set foot in a Tar Heel tribunal. 203 00:11:01,891 --> 00:11:05,349 As the Bible tells us, seek and ye shall find. 204 00:11:05,978 --> 00:11:07,684 And I thank the Lord for helping us 205 00:11:07,771 --> 00:11:10,057 to find these terribly troubling tapes. 206 00:11:17,031 --> 00:11:19,488 The court has received the tapes and transcripts. 207 00:11:19,575 --> 00:11:21,861 I will arrange for my clerk to make you copies. 208 00:11:22,077 --> 00:11:24,033 I presume it will take you a good amount of time 209 00:11:24,121 --> 00:11:25,361 to wade through the materials, 210 00:11:25,456 --> 00:11:27,663 and decide how much, if any, you want to introduce. 211 00:11:27,750 --> 00:11:30,742 We'll want to introduce plenty, Your Honor, maybe all of them. 212 00:11:30,836 --> 00:11:32,167 You Honor, we will fight that. 213 00:11:32,254 --> 00:11:33,994 Mark Fuhrman consulting on a screenplay 214 00:11:34,089 --> 00:11:35,875 has no bearing on a murder trial. 215 00:11:35,966 --> 00:11:38,503 This is just the defense throwing conspiracy mud at the wall 216 00:11:38,594 --> 00:11:39,583 and seeing what sticks. 217 00:11:39,678 --> 00:11:43,387 0h, it'll stick. It'll stick with thejury. It'll stick with the public. 218 00:11:43,474 --> 00:11:46,056 The public? What do they have to do with this? 219 00:11:46,185 --> 00:11:48,551 The truth, Marcia. They have a right to know. 220 00:11:48,938 --> 00:11:51,020 This isn't a smoking gun in the Simpson case. 221 00:11:51,106 --> 00:11:54,519 This is a smoking gun for the United States. 222 00:11:55,069 --> 00:11:58,732 Your Honor, I anticipate that this will bejust a pro forma request? 223 00:12:00,032 --> 00:12:03,240 Actually, Mr. Cochran, lwouldn't jump to any conclusions. 224 00:12:03,327 --> 00:12:05,739 I need to review precedent and make a determination. 225 00:12:05,829 --> 00:12:08,571 Until then, you and your assistants may review the tapes. 226 00:12:08,916 --> 00:12:12,408 But other than that, they are to remain sealed. You understand? Sealed. 227 00:12:24,390 --> 00:12:25,846 [suspenseful music] 228 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,257 [Mark] See, if you did it like they teach you in the academy, 229 00:13:02,553 --> 00:13:04,293 you'd never get a fucking thing done. 230 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:06,341 If the suspect doesn't talk, you give him 231 00:13:06,432 --> 00:13:07,922 a shot in the stomach with your stick 232 00:13:08,017 --> 00:13:09,848 and you say, "Listen, boy, I'm talking to you. " 233 00:13:09,935 --> 00:13:12,677 Or you grab him by the hair and keep punching him till they go down. 234 00:13:13,772 --> 00:13:15,683 See, people don't want niggers in their town. 235 00:13:15,774 --> 00:13:17,355 People don 't want Mexicans. 236 00:13:17,443 --> 00:13:19,559 They don 't want anybody but good people. 237 00:13:19,653 --> 00:13:22,019 And any way you can do to get them out, that's fine. 238 00:13:23,282 --> 00:13:25,443 We have no niggers where I grew up. 239 00:13:26,243 --> 00:13:27,904 [Laura] Do you still use the choke hold? 240 00:13:27,995 --> 00:13:30,702 [Mark] No. We had to eliminate it because a bunch of niggers 241 00:13:30,789 --> 00:13:32,905 down in the south of LA complained. 242 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,116 These niggers started a bunch of organizations 243 00:13:35,210 --> 00:13:37,747 because all the niggers got choked out and killed. 244 00:13:58,859 --> 00:14:01,350 The longer this trial goes, the lower your numbers drop. 245 00:14:01,737 --> 00:14:05,355 We get to the March primary and people are still talking about 0.J. Simpson. 246 00:14:05,449 --> 00:14:07,610 There's something seriously wrong with this world. 247 00:14:12,331 --> 00:14:13,616 [knocking on window] 248 00:14:14,792 --> 00:14:17,374 God. I think my numbers are about to fall even lower. 249 00:14:17,461 --> 00:14:18,621 Excuse me for a second. 250 00:14:22,007 --> 00:14:24,168 All right. What? 251 00:14:24,843 --> 00:14:26,174 [door closes] 252 00:14:26,261 --> 00:14:27,967 -[Gi|] Has Ito ruled on the tapes? -Not yet. 253 00:14:28,055 --> 00:14:30,842 And we're fighting to keep them out, but while we were reviewing them, 254 00:14:30,933 --> 00:14:33,675 we heard something... Unexpected. 255 00:14:35,521 --> 00:14:37,978 You should sit. This is bad. 256 00:14:38,524 --> 00:14:41,812 No, I know. He hates Mexicans, he uses the N word. He's a sexist pig. 257 00:14:42,277 --> 00:14:43,938 He utters every racial slur known to man. 258 00:14:44,029 --> 00:14:47,066 Yes. That is all true, but there's sort of an 0. Henry twist. 259 00:14:48,450 --> 00:14:50,862 Somebody he hates that none of us saw coming. 260 00:14:55,249 --> 00:14:56,409 [sighs] 261 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:58,036 Okay. 262 00:15:01,463 --> 00:15:04,170 [Mark] I hate this woman. You know the type, dyed blond, 263 00:15:04,258 --> 00:15:08,718 one inch roots, sloped shoulders, a pouch big enough to hide cats in? 264 00:15:09,179 --> 00:15:11,545 She's the only marsupial on the police force. 265 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,505 -Peggy barely worked... -Wait. 266 00:15:14,309 --> 00:15:17,426 Peggy? Is he talking about Peggy York, Ito's wife? 267 00:15:17,771 --> 00:15:20,934 [Mark] It sickens me she's a captain. [refuse to take orders from her. 268 00:15:21,066 --> 00:15:22,852 She's as far from a policeman as I've seen. 269 00:15:23,152 --> 00:15:25,268 Hell, she's as far from a woman as I 've seen. 270 00:15:25,779 --> 00:15:27,144 She just sucked and fucked- 271 00:15:28,407 --> 00:15:29,613 [sighs] 272 00:15:30,617 --> 00:15:32,073 What did hejust say? 273 00:15:32,161 --> 00:15:34,618 -He says that she sucked- -He's saying that... 274 00:15:35,747 --> 00:15:37,203 I cannot believe this. 275 00:15:37,666 --> 00:15:38,655 Jesus. 276 00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:41,367 Our star witness insulting the judge's wife. 277 00:15:41,503 --> 00:15:43,209 Yes. Not only does Fuhrman hate blacks, 278 00:15:43,297 --> 00:15:45,834 he hates Peggy York, the highest ranking woman in the LAPD. 279 00:15:45,924 --> 00:15:47,130 Didn't she sign the affidavit? 280 00:15:47,217 --> 00:15:48,206 Sure. 281 00:15:48,302 --> 00:15:49,792 When Ito was assigned to the case, 282 00:15:49,887 --> 00:15:52,469 Peggy claimed she had no dealings with Fuhrman. 283 00:15:52,556 --> 00:15:54,296 Which seems hard to believe 284 00:15:54,391 --> 00:15:56,006 since we learned she reprimanded him for 285 00:15:56,101 --> 00:15:58,808 writing KKK on a Martin Luther King poster. 286 00:15:59,688 --> 00:16:03,146 Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. 287 00:16:03,734 --> 00:16:05,975 So which means she can be called as a material witness 288 00:16:06,069 --> 00:16:08,276 in which case Ito has to disqualify himself 289 00:16:08,363 --> 00:16:09,978 which means we're looking at a mistrial. 290 00:16:11,450 --> 00:16:14,783 Six million dollars of taxpayer money. One year of work. 291 00:16:14,870 --> 00:16:18,738 We're looking at a mistrial? Shit, the constituents will freak out. 292 00:16:19,625 --> 00:16:22,207 This screams gross incompetence. 293 00:16:36,725 --> 00:16:38,590 Marcia, let's take a deep breath here. 294 00:16:39,770 --> 00:16:41,260 Do we want a mistrial? 295 00:16:41,980 --> 00:16:44,596 Let's start over. Learn from our mistakes. 296 00:16:45,484 --> 00:16:47,224 Do it without Fuhrman. 297 00:16:50,447 --> 00:16:52,062 [music intensifies] 298 00:16:52,950 --> 00:16:54,861 We are in perilous waters. 299 00:16:55,327 --> 00:16:57,534 The prosecution can manipulate this situation. 300 00:16:57,663 --> 00:17:00,496 Marcia and Chris are in trouble. Their case is dying. 301 00:17:00,666 --> 00:17:03,408 Suddenly they get thrown a life preserver. Peggy on tape. 302 00:17:03,710 --> 00:17:07,373 So they game it. Ito gets tossed for the conflict. They get a new trial. 303 00:17:07,673 --> 00:17:09,254 Jesus. A complete do-over. 304 00:17:09,508 --> 00:17:11,544 Well, wait a minute. Try the case again? 305 00:17:11,635 --> 00:17:13,876 We can't. We can't live through this again. 306 00:17:13,971 --> 00:17:16,804 They could move the trial back to Santa Monica and get a white jury. 307 00:17:16,890 --> 00:17:18,426 And this time they don't call Fuhrman. 308 00:17:18,517 --> 00:17:20,803 The LAPD doesn't get tarnished and the tapes 309 00:17:20,894 --> 00:17:22,475 never get played. 310 00:17:22,646 --> 00:17:24,887 The scenario is unthinkable. 311 00:17:24,982 --> 00:17:26,847 We are this close to them being admitted. 312 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:30,270 Does Ito even know yet? 313 00:17:32,406 --> 00:17:35,068 -My wife is mentioned on these tapes? -Yes, Your Honor. 314 00:17:35,325 --> 00:17:37,987 And it's quite derogatory. 315 00:17:38,662 --> 00:17:39,742 Terrible things. 316 00:17:39,830 --> 00:17:42,412 It's a delicate situation for all of us. 317 00:17:43,375 --> 00:17:44,490 Delicate how? 318 00:17:44,585 --> 00:17:48,703 The interactions Fuhrman described, given their explosive vocabulary, 319 00:17:49,506 --> 00:17:51,838 would seem to make it hard for Peggy to forget him. 320 00:17:56,179 --> 00:17:59,717 So the implication is that Peggy lied so that I could be on this case. 321 00:18:03,437 --> 00:18:05,928 This whole situation is toxic. 322 00:18:07,566 --> 00:18:08,897 [clears throat] 323 00:18:08,984 --> 00:18:10,099 All right. 324 00:18:10,402 --> 00:18:12,518 I don't want there to be any insinuation 325 00:18:12,613 --> 00:18:14,569 that we tried to keep this contained, so 326 00:18:14,948 --> 00:18:17,564 this conversation should continue in open court. 327 00:18:18,535 --> 00:18:20,651 Thank you. If you will excuse me. 328 00:18:22,414 --> 00:18:23,494 Your Honor. 329 00:18:27,961 --> 00:18:29,246 [door closes] 330 00:18:36,219 --> 00:18:37,709 A concern has been raised 331 00:18:37,804 --> 00:18:41,296 regarding the court's ability to be fair and impartial. 332 00:18:43,727 --> 00:18:46,764 It could be argued that the court would not 333 00:18:46,855 --> 00:18:48,971 want the court's wife to be embarrassed. 334 00:18:49,650 --> 00:18:51,265 And what's unfortunate, 335 00:18:52,194 --> 00:18:54,981 is that things are said about people all the time. 336 00:18:55,781 --> 00:18:58,864 Things that are not accurate, not kind. 337 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,275 Disparaging. 338 00:19:03,997 --> 00:19:05,953 I love my wife dearly. 339 00:19:08,377 --> 00:19:09,617 And I am... 340 00:19:11,213 --> 00:19:14,501 Wounded by criticism of her as any spouse would be. 341 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:17,749 And... 342 00:19:20,931 --> 00:19:23,764 I think it would be reasonable to assume that 343 00:19:24,226 --> 00:19:26,137 that could have some impact. 344 00:19:28,730 --> 00:19:30,846 Women who work in male dominated 345 00:19:30,941 --> 00:19:33,273 professions, I think, are tougher than most. 346 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:37,026 And if they are successful, they are almost always 347 00:19:38,365 --> 00:19:40,071 targets for this kind of treatment. 348 00:19:41,952 --> 00:19:44,113 There is also an argument that 349 00:19:44,705 --> 00:19:48,368 this court in ruling might be motivated to punish Detective Fuhrman 350 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,661 for making these statements about his wife. 351 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,543 This may be a conflict for me which could trigger a mistrial, so 352 00:20:03,223 --> 00:20:08,217 I think anotherjudge has to determine whether or not this case can remain, 353 00:20:08,311 --> 00:20:09,426 before this court. 354 00:20:10,981 --> 00:20:12,846 [indistinct chatter] 355 00:20:31,877 --> 00:20:34,789 This is insane. You couldn't get away with this plot twist 356 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,711 in an airport paperback. 357 00:20:43,513 --> 00:20:45,720 So. What should we do? 358 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,886 Chris, I've been thinking about this constantly. 359 00:20:49,978 --> 00:20:51,889 The problem is, it's too risky. 360 00:20:52,522 --> 00:20:54,433 If it's perceived we pushed for mistrial, 361 00:20:54,524 --> 00:20:55,809 it would trigger double jeopardy 362 00:20:55,901 --> 00:20:58,142 and in that version, O.J. walks. 363 00:20:59,446 --> 00:21:01,528 Can you imagine the public reaction? 364 00:21:13,043 --> 00:21:15,159 What? You think I wouldn't want a do over? 365 00:21:15,796 --> 00:21:17,627 I would like to do over all of my mistakes. 366 00:21:17,714 --> 00:21:19,955 Do over my life. Do over my marriage. 367 00:21:23,303 --> 00:21:25,009 We have to plow forward. 368 00:21:47,953 --> 00:21:50,239 Your Honor, we don't want to leave our court. 369 00:21:50,330 --> 00:21:52,161 We fought to get the tapes. 370 00:21:52,541 --> 00:21:53,951 They are hard evidence. 371 00:21:54,876 --> 00:21:58,835 The District Attorney's star witness was caught lying under oath. 372 00:21:59,005 --> 00:22:00,666 He committed perjury. 373 00:22:01,383 --> 00:22:04,420 Now, the part that relates to the judge's wife 374 00:22:04,511 --> 00:22:06,172 is very very small. 375 00:22:06,763 --> 00:22:09,846 And because we don't want a mistrial, we propose 376 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,216 that the tapes be given to Judge Ito 377 00:22:12,936 --> 00:22:15,348 with that part redacted. 378 00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:19,939 [Judge] Well... 379 00:22:20,569 --> 00:22:24,403 I'm going to require time to review this constellation of tapes, 380 00:22:24,489 --> 00:22:26,150 and transcripts and records. 381 00:22:26,783 --> 00:22:31,277 Only after I have a comprehensive understanding can I make a decision. 382 00:22:35,709 --> 00:22:36,744 [elevator dings] 383 00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:44,957 We gotta wait for this judge to get a comprehensive understanding. How long? 384 00:22:45,051 --> 00:22:46,382 Things cannot be left to whim. 385 00:22:46,469 --> 00:22:48,175 Cochran, you have to trust the system. 386 00:22:48,305 --> 00:22:50,762 -We need to turn up the pressure. -Pressure? 387 00:22:50,849 --> 00:22:54,967 You want to turn up the pressure? This city is about to explode. 388 00:22:55,061 --> 00:22:57,097 We have enough pressure. 389 00:23:05,697 --> 00:23:07,278 [music intensifies] 390 00:23:21,838 --> 00:23:24,875 I told you not to use Fuhrman. 391 00:23:25,467 --> 00:23:27,708 Now how many times did I say it? 392 00:23:28,136 --> 00:23:30,673 He's damaged goods and I said it and I said it, 393 00:23:30,764 --> 00:23:33,130 but you just didn't take me seriously. 394 00:23:36,811 --> 00:23:37,971 You know? 395 00:23:38,063 --> 00:23:41,146 You put me on this trial because you wanted a black face, 396 00:23:41,274 --> 00:23:44,562 but the truth is, you never wanted a black voice. 397 00:23:51,159 --> 00:23:52,194 [sighs] 398 00:23:57,874 --> 00:24:02,208 Good afternoon. I would like to introduce members of our coalition. 399 00:24:03,421 --> 00:24:07,915 Miss Geraldine Washington, president of the local NAACP. 400 00:24:08,259 --> 00:24:10,921 Mr. John Mack, head of the Urban League. 401 00:24:11,304 --> 00:24:14,091 Mr. Danny Bakewell, of the Brotherhood Crusade. 402 00:24:14,432 --> 00:24:16,468 And the esteemed Reverend Frank Higgins, 403 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:18,800 of the Baptist Ministers' Conference. 404 00:24:19,104 --> 00:24:20,969 Can we give them all a round of applause 405 00:24:21,064 --> 00:24:23,305 as our speaker of the hour comes to the podium? 406 00:24:23,441 --> 00:24:24,931 [all applauding] 407 00:24:26,778 --> 00:24:31,147 We demand an immediate federal and state investigation of these tapes. 408 00:24:32,033 --> 00:24:34,570 We demand full disclosure to calm 409 00:24:34,661 --> 00:24:37,619 a community unsettled by the reports of their content. 410 00:24:37,872 --> 00:24:40,705 It goes way beyond O.J. 411 00:24:41,751 --> 00:24:46,120 People are angry that these tapes confirm what we've always known. 412 00:24:47,090 --> 00:24:50,082 Racist officers unjustly imprison, 413 00:24:50,885 --> 00:24:54,218 beat and kill African Americans and other people of color. 414 00:24:54,723 --> 00:24:56,133 God. This is terrible. 415 00:24:56,850 --> 00:24:58,090 I tried to stop them. 416 00:24:58,351 --> 00:25:00,216 I want our leaders to listen 417 00:25:01,604 --> 00:25:03,265 and to listen very carefully. 418 00:25:04,274 --> 00:25:06,265 Release these tapes... 419 00:25:07,193 --> 00:25:09,935 Because this community is a powder keg, 420 00:25:10,030 --> 00:25:13,147 capable of repeating the actions of 1992. 421 00:25:13,283 --> 00:25:15,740 Release the tapes. 422 00:25:15,869 --> 00:25:16,858 [clamoring in support] 423 00:25:17,537 --> 00:25:20,870 Jesus. Johnnie is threatening another riot. 424 00:25:21,624 --> 00:25:25,663 -Release the tapes. Release the tapes. -Release the tapes. Release the tapes. 425 00:25:26,046 --> 00:25:28,253 Release the tapes. Release the tapes. 426 00:25:35,305 --> 00:25:37,512 [all] O.J. O.J. O.J. o..r... 427 00:25:38,308 --> 00:25:41,300 [man] In the OJ. Simpson trial, the court handed down a decision 428 00:25:41,394 --> 00:25:44,306 that Judge Ito will be able to rule on the Mark Fuhrman tapes. 429 00:25:44,814 --> 00:25:48,147 A hearing is scheduled for today and a ruling is expected soon 430 00:25:48,318 --> 00:25:51,310 on the highly controversial and incendiary tapes. 431 00:26:08,046 --> 00:26:09,161 Your Honor. 432 00:26:10,632 --> 00:26:12,964 This issue can be decided with dispatch. 433 00:26:13,676 --> 00:26:15,587 We will present portions of that transcript 434 00:26:15,678 --> 00:26:18,795 that are relevant to the credibility of Detective Fuhrman. 435 00:26:18,890 --> 00:26:22,553 Thirty occasions in which he used the word nigger 436 00:26:23,103 --> 00:26:24,934 in a racially offensive context 437 00:26:25,021 --> 00:26:29,355 and which directly contradict the testimony he presented under oath. 438 00:26:30,485 --> 00:26:31,850 We will also present 439 00:26:32,028 --> 00:26:34,895 an additional seventeen extracts 440 00:26:34,989 --> 00:26:37,822 where Detective Furhman speaks with personal experience 441 00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:40,366 about police misconduct, 442 00:26:41,246 --> 00:26:42,406 planting of evidence, 443 00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:44,279 commission of perjury, 444 00:26:44,666 --> 00:26:46,702 and the presentation of cover ups 445 00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:50,418 and false testimony in court proceedings. 446 00:26:55,218 --> 00:26:57,800 This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do as a prosecutor. 447 00:26:59,389 --> 00:27:03,052 I don't want to be in the position of defending Mark Fuhrman. 448 00:27:04,185 --> 00:27:07,894 My job is to defend Ron and Nicole. 449 00:27:09,023 --> 00:27:10,183 The victims. 450 00:27:11,484 --> 00:27:13,896 But the bottom line is not Fuhrman. 451 00:27:14,696 --> 00:27:16,186 It's the concrete evidence. 452 00:27:16,281 --> 00:27:17,646 The defense just wants to inflame 453 00:27:17,740 --> 00:27:19,355 the jury so they forget about the facts 454 00:27:19,450 --> 00:27:20,690 and vote emotionally. 455 00:27:23,872 --> 00:27:26,329 I hope this very cynical view will be proven wrong 456 00:27:26,541 --> 00:27:28,998 and the jury will rise to the occasion and say no, 457 00:27:29,502 --> 00:27:31,584 we are going to look at the evidence, 458 00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:35,831 because the rest of this stuff is irrelevant. 459 00:27:43,183 --> 00:27:44,889 | submit these cases, 460 00:27:45,143 --> 00:27:49,056 numerous cases, where racial epithets were deemed immaterial. 461 00:27:50,023 --> 00:27:53,857 I beg of you, Your Honor. Act on precedent. 462 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,357 Do not let thejurors hear these tapes. 463 00:28:00,241 --> 00:28:02,698 I am begging you from my soul. 464 00:28:47,914 --> 00:28:49,324 [Mark] Any nigger driving a Porsche 465 00:28:49,415 --> 00:28:51,872 who doesn't have a 300 dollar suit on, you can always stop. 466 00:28:52,418 --> 00:28:55,125 Anything out of a nigger's mouth, the first five sentences is a lie. 467 00:28:55,213 --> 00:28:56,419 They don 't want Mexicans. 468 00:28:56,506 --> 00:28:58,246 They don 't want anybody but good people... 469 00:28:58,341 --> 00:29:00,878 Doesn't Ito have an impossible decision on his hands? 470 00:29:01,469 --> 00:29:06,133 The Judge has no choice, he has to play the tapes. They exist. 471 00:29:06,391 --> 00:29:08,632 I don 't envy the guy. Pardon my French, 472 00:29:08,726 --> 00:29:11,342 but he's screwed either way. 473 00:29:23,825 --> 00:29:27,317 AII rise. Courtroom 103 is now in session. 474 00:29:27,662 --> 00:29:30,199 The Honorable Lance A. Ito presiding. 475 00:29:33,001 --> 00:29:34,161 Good morning. 476 00:29:44,554 --> 00:29:46,010 Over the recess, 477 00:29:46,347 --> 00:29:49,635 I've had the opportunity to contemplate the issues at hand. 478 00:29:50,059 --> 00:29:51,595 Now, I have not yet decided what tape 479 00:29:51,686 --> 00:29:54,393 excerpts are appropriate for the jury to hear, 480 00:29:54,897 --> 00:29:55,977 however, 481 00:29:56,190 --> 00:29:58,852 I think that there is an overriding public interest 482 00:29:58,943 --> 00:30:00,604 in the defense's offer. 483 00:30:01,237 --> 00:30:03,569 And I don't want there to be any impression 484 00:30:03,656 --> 00:30:05,988 that the court would ever suppress any information. 485 00:30:06,701 --> 00:30:07,907 These tapes 486 00:30:09,037 --> 00:30:11,153 have become a matter of national concern. 487 00:30:12,665 --> 00:30:15,407 Many entities have asked that they become public, 488 00:30:15,501 --> 00:30:17,207 so what I'm going to suggest 489 00:30:19,881 --> 00:30:22,042 is that the defense play its presentation 490 00:30:22,133 --> 00:30:23,748 to the court in its entirety. 491 00:30:24,344 --> 00:30:25,675 National concern? 492 00:30:25,762 --> 00:30:28,845 This is a double homicide, Your Honor, not Iran-Contra. 493 00:30:28,931 --> 00:30:31,513 Miss Clark, the court, in its wisdom, has made a determination. 494 00:30:31,601 --> 00:30:32,841 Why do we have to broadcast it? 495 00:30:32,935 --> 00:30:34,721 Truth, Miss Clark, the truth. 496 00:30:34,812 --> 00:30:36,973 The court hides nothing from the people. Nothing. 497 00:30:38,274 --> 00:30:40,139 You have presented a defense 498 00:30:40,234 --> 00:30:42,816 that is based completely on lies and deceptions. 499 00:30:43,696 --> 00:30:45,812 This teasing the public, the media, 500 00:30:45,907 --> 00:30:47,738 by throwing them bits of the tapes, 501 00:30:47,909 --> 00:30:50,025 infiaming the public's passions in an attempt 502 00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:52,110 to exert political pressure over His Honor, 503 00:30:52,830 --> 00:30:55,913 in an attempt to pressure the court into admitting in the Fuhrman tapes. 504 00:30:56,042 --> 00:30:58,078 -Mr. Darden- -No. This case is a circus 505 00:30:58,586 --> 00:31:00,793 and the defense has made into a circus. 506 00:31:01,214 --> 00:31:03,170 And the court has allowed them to walk all over- 507 00:31:03,257 --> 00:31:05,464 Mr. Darden, you are close to being held in contempt. 508 00:31:05,551 --> 00:31:07,837 -Well. I should be held in contempt. -Jesus! 509 00:31:07,929 --> 00:31:08,918 [laughing] 510 00:31:09,013 --> 00:31:11,049 There is nothing funny here. 511 00:31:12,225 --> 00:31:13,340 Mr. Darden? 512 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:15,345 Chris, calm down. 513 00:31:16,562 --> 00:31:17,597 Don't. 514 00:31:18,648 --> 00:31:19,728 Mr. Darden? 515 00:31:20,316 --> 00:31:21,556 Mr. Darden? 516 00:31:23,236 --> 00:31:24,476 I am warning you. 517 00:31:24,695 --> 00:31:25,935 A good piece of advice. 518 00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:27,611 Take three deep breaths then 519 00:31:27,698 --> 00:31:29,609 contemplate what you are about to say next. 520 00:31:40,294 --> 00:31:42,330 I would like counsel, Your Honor. 521 00:31:52,223 --> 00:31:54,339 All right, Mr. Darden, you can have counsel. 522 00:31:54,851 --> 00:31:57,843 Do you wish to call your counsel at this time Mr. Darden? 523 00:32:17,415 --> 00:32:20,907 I would like to be heard on behalf of Mr. Darden, Your Honor. 524 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:24,832 Miss Clark, do you represent Mr. Darden in this matter? 525 00:32:24,922 --> 00:32:26,878 I don't know if I'm legally entitled to, 526 00:32:26,966 --> 00:32:28,331 but I would like to be heard. 527 00:32:29,886 --> 00:32:31,751 Mr. Darden is simply responding to 528 00:32:31,846 --> 00:32:34,303 the unfair events that have occurred in this courtroom today 529 00:32:34,390 --> 00:32:35,379 and other days. 530 00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:38,342 The court has been exploited by counsel for cross purposes. 531 00:32:38,436 --> 00:32:41,178 Miss Clark, I think perhaps you need to take ten deep breaths 532 00:32:41,314 --> 00:32:43,680 for you also are about to be held in contempt. 533 00:32:46,027 --> 00:32:47,858 Shall I take off my watch and jewelery? 534 00:33:14,931 --> 00:33:15,920 Your Honor? 535 00:33:18,476 --> 00:33:20,808 Perhaps some of my comments may have been 536 00:33:21,437 --> 00:33:22,973 somewhat inappropriate. 537 00:33:23,523 --> 00:33:25,013 I apologize to the court. 538 00:33:25,608 --> 00:33:26,893 I meant no disrespect. 539 00:33:35,493 --> 00:33:37,825 All right, Mr. Darden, I accept your apology. 540 00:33:38,162 --> 00:33:40,528 I apologize to you for my reaction as well. 541 00:33:41,999 --> 00:33:44,160 You and I have known each other for a number of years 542 00:33:44,252 --> 00:33:46,834 and I know that your response was out of character, so thank you. 543 00:33:48,422 --> 00:33:49,662 Thank you, Your Honor. 544 00:33:55,012 --> 00:33:59,096 [all] No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. 545 00:33:59,308 --> 00:34:12,608 No justice. No peace. 546 00:34:13,406 --> 00:34:14,566 After you. 547 00:34:14,657 --> 00:34:16,739 No justice. No peace. 548 00:34:18,327 --> 00:34:19,863 Thank you for coming. 549 00:34:19,954 --> 00:34:23,867 No justice. No peace. 550 00:34:23,958 --> 00:34:25,289 [gavel banging] 551 00:34:44,061 --> 00:34:46,268 [Mark] I had sixty-six allegations of brutality, 552 00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:48,812 but two of my buddies were shot and ambushed. 553 00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:51,060 I was first unit on the scene. 554 00:34:51,152 --> 00:34:53,313 Four suspects ran into an apartment in the projects. 555 00:34:53,404 --> 00:34:55,770 We kicked the door down. I grabbed a girl that lived there. 556 00:34:55,865 --> 00:34:57,821 Grabbed her by the hair, stuck a gun to her head, 557 00:34:57,908 --> 00:34:59,023 and used her as a barricade. 558 00:34:59,118 --> 00:35:00,824 I walked up and said, "I've got this girl 559 00:35:00,911 --> 00:35:03,402 I'll blow her fucking brains out if you come out with a gun. " 560 00:35:03,539 --> 00:35:06,281 I held her and then I threw the bitch down the stairs. 561 00:35:06,792 --> 00:35:08,532 [Laura] Can we use that in the story? 562 00:35:10,129 --> 00:35:12,916 [Mark] It hasn't been seven years. Statute of limitations. 563 00:35:13,799 --> 00:35:16,461 I have 300-something pages of internal affairs investigation 564 00:35:16,552 --> 00:35:18,213 just on that one incident. 565 00:35:18,304 --> 00:35:19,760 We basically tortured those guys. 566 00:35:19,847 --> 00:35:22,338 We broke their bones until their faces were mush. 567 00:35:22,767 --> 00:35:24,507 There was blood all the way to the ceiling 568 00:35:24,602 --> 00:35:27,014 and finger marks like they were trying to crawl out. 569 00:35:27,438 --> 00:35:29,474 It was unbelievable. There was blood everywhere. 570 00:35:30,441 --> 00:35:33,274 How do you intellectualize when you punch the hell out of a nigger? 571 00:35:33,486 --> 00:35:35,067 He either deserves it or he doesn't. 572 00:35:35,154 --> 00:35:38,863 Falsifying a report? Whatever. That's putting a criminal in jail. 573 00:35:39,116 --> 00:35:40,606 That's being a policeman. 574 00:35:42,078 --> 00:35:44,490 Does that police station have the smell of niggers? 575 00:35:44,955 --> 00:35:47,492 They've been beaten and killed in there for thirty years. 576 00:35:48,751 --> 00:35:51,743 Immediately after we beat those guys, we found a garden hose in the back. 577 00:35:51,921 --> 00:35:53,081 We had blood all over us. 578 00:35:53,172 --> 00:35:54,912 Illfith a dark blue uniform, you don't see it. 579 00:35:55,216 --> 00:35:58,253 But we had to wash our hands. Looked like red paint. 580 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:02,131 We cleaned our badges. We cleaned our faces. 581 00:36:03,265 --> 00:36:05,096 Then we went out to direct traffic. 582 00:36:34,588 --> 00:36:36,044 [Fred Goldman] What happened in there... 583 00:36:37,216 --> 00:36:39,252 This is now the Fuhrman trial. 584 00:36:39,468 --> 00:36:41,299 This is not a trial 585 00:36:42,096 --> 00:36:43,632 about the man 586 00:36:44,473 --> 00:36:46,338 that murdered my son. 587 00:36:48,060 --> 00:36:49,345 We came to this court... 588 00:36:50,980 --> 00:36:52,140 months ago... 589 00:36:53,232 --> 00:36:55,143 You know I just realized something. 590 00:36:55,693 --> 00:36:58,435 -Wh at's that? -Mark Fuhrman's initials are M.F. 591 00:37:00,823 --> 00:37:02,359 I guess that's funny. 592 00:37:03,826 --> 00:37:05,942 But I don't feel like laughing. 593 00:37:08,247 --> 00:37:09,783 [sighs] 594 00:37:10,458 --> 00:37:11,914 It seems like... 595 00:37:13,711 --> 00:37:15,326 Like it's all over. 596 00:37:17,673 --> 00:37:19,629 Ito could save our asses. 597 00:37:20,301 --> 00:37:23,509 He could decide it's all irrelevant and not let the jurors hear anything. 598 00:37:23,596 --> 00:37:25,302 Come on, Marcia. They'll hear. 599 00:37:25,931 --> 00:37:28,263 A couple of conjugal visits is all it takes. 600 00:37:34,774 --> 00:37:37,390 ...about the fact that he is a bad police officer. 601 00:37:46,327 --> 00:37:48,443 I'm so sorry I didn't listen to you. 602 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,530 You deserved better. 603 00:37:57,254 --> 00:37:58,994 I know I'm too stubborn. 604 00:37:59,507 --> 00:38:01,543 | always refuse to back down. 605 00:38:03,135 --> 00:38:04,545 It's a problem. 606 00:38:05,304 --> 00:38:06,714 [chuckles] 607 00:38:16,232 --> 00:38:18,097 I shouldn't have bet on Fuhrman. 608 00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:25,613 Well, if we're apologizing... 609 00:38:28,035 --> 00:38:30,321 Then I'm sorry as shit about those gloves. 610 00:38:44,009 --> 00:38:46,295 Guess we should have listened to each other. 611 00:38:59,191 --> 00:39:01,022 I got some work to do. 612 00:39:10,619 --> 00:39:14,612 These tapes expose the ugly reality of the LAPD. 613 00:39:14,790 --> 00:39:16,655 It can never again be denied. 614 00:39:17,209 --> 00:39:18,995 We only hope and pray that Chief Williams 615 00:39:19,086 --> 00:39:20,121 [knocking on door] 616 00:39:20,212 --> 00:39:21,918 follows through on his promise of change. 617 00:39:23,424 --> 00:39:26,257 I trust that's enough for your story and thank you. 618 00:39:27,094 --> 00:39:28,800 Ito is releasing the decision. 619 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,341 Come on. Come on. Come on. 620 00:39:42,484 --> 00:39:43,974 Give it. Give it to me. 621 00:39:44,069 --> 00:39:46,685 No. No. No. It's a nightmare. 622 00:39:47,156 --> 00:39:48,441 Ito shafted us. 623 00:39:48,532 --> 00:39:51,194 He's disallowing all the beatings, all the manufacture of evidence. 624 00:39:51,285 --> 00:39:52,866 My God. He's allowing only two sentences. 625 00:39:52,953 --> 00:39:55,865 "We had no niggers where I grew up," and "That's where the niggers live." 626 00:39:55,956 --> 00:39:57,571 All Ito cares about is the perjury. 627 00:39:57,666 --> 00:39:59,372 Fuhrman testified he didn't say the word, 628 00:39:59,460 --> 00:40:00,791 so two sentences prove otherwise. 629 00:40:00,878 --> 00:40:02,664 What about the other thirteen hours? 630 00:40:02,755 --> 00:40:05,713 "Their value is ovenuhelmingly outweighed 631 00:40:05,799 --> 00:40:07,585 by the danger of undue prejudice." 632 00:40:07,676 --> 00:40:09,632 Prejudice, that's a hell of a word to use. 633 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:13,258 Bring the whole team down here and call up every network. 634 00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:15,965 Shawn, dry them tears, girl. Let's go. 635 00:40:17,353 --> 00:40:18,809 [intense music] 636 00:40:19,188 --> 00:40:21,554 Thirteen hours of tapes down to two sentences. 637 00:40:21,649 --> 00:40:23,935 In the history of American jurisprudence- 638 00:40:24,109 --> 00:40:26,851 No, Johnnie, stop. You're turning this into a referendum. 639 00:40:27,154 --> 00:40:28,894 Now, granted, it's a mixed decision, 640 00:40:28,989 --> 00:40:30,900 but Ito has given us enough to work with. 641 00:40:30,991 --> 00:40:33,903 Bob, you're blind. He's knocked out the manufacturing of evidence. 642 00:40:33,994 --> 00:40:36,076 That's what get us to the planted glove. 643 00:40:36,664 --> 00:40:39,701 I appreciate your passion, but we've been hired to defend a client, 644 00:40:39,792 --> 00:40:41,282 not to burn down the city. 645 00:40:41,502 --> 00:40:44,084 Now I'm sorry that you're disappointed. I understand- 646 00:40:44,171 --> 00:40:45,786 No, you don't. It's impossible. 647 00:40:46,173 --> 00:40:50,086 There is no way you can understand what this is like, Bob. 648 00:40:55,057 --> 00:40:59,141 It's one of the cruelest, unfairest decisions ever rendered. 649 00:40:59,937 --> 00:41:01,598 It lends credence to all those who say 650 00:41:01,689 --> 00:41:03,270 the criminal justice system is corrupt. 651 00:41:04,566 --> 00:41:07,308 Now, Judge Ito is misleading this jury. 652 00:41:07,569 --> 00:41:10,561 Now all the world knows who Mark Fuhrman really is, 653 00:41:10,990 --> 00:41:12,605 except our jury. 654 00:41:12,992 --> 00:41:16,234 Ourjury will be left in the dark. 655 00:41:16,912 --> 00:41:20,655 OJ. Simpson has been wrongly accused and framed. 656 00:41:20,791 --> 00:41:22,531 And the cover up continues. 657 00:41:23,585 --> 00:41:28,670 Now. I know that many people share in our anger, 658 00:41:29,883 --> 00:41:35,173 but the citizens of Los Angeles should remain calm. 659 00:41:42,563 --> 00:41:44,724 -Here, baby. -Thank you. 660 00:41:51,488 --> 00:41:52,819 I'm still trembling. 661 00:41:56,952 --> 00:41:58,943 I had hoped to accomplish so much. 662 00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:00,569 Johnnie. 663 00:42:01,415 --> 00:42:02,404 You have. 664 00:42:03,042 --> 00:42:04,873 Johnnie, you have. 665 00:42:05,419 --> 00:42:07,125 Those two lines say plenty. 666 00:42:12,801 --> 00:42:14,166 I feel like I failed. 667 00:42:18,682 --> 00:42:20,468 All those hours of tape 668 00:42:21,769 --> 00:42:24,511 and the jury will only hear twelve words. 669 00:42:27,107 --> 00:42:30,270 But the world, they heard the whole truth. 670 00:42:33,739 --> 00:42:35,570 The hell with 0.J. Simpson. 671 00:42:35,949 --> 00:42:38,691 He is an imperfect vessel, but you, you... 672 00:42:40,245 --> 00:42:41,906 Got your message out there. 673 00:42:44,374 --> 00:42:46,160 I'm proud of you, Johnnie. 674 00:43:07,272 --> 00:43:08,682 [clamoring] 675 00:43:11,777 --> 00:43:13,688 [banging and shouting] 676 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:19,940 [shouting] 677 00:43:27,584 --> 00:43:31,076 We call Detective Mark Fuhrman to resume the witness stand. 678 00:44:32,107 --> 00:44:34,519 It's hard to be hated by both sides. 679 00:44:35,444 --> 00:44:37,526 It takes a man of certain character. 680 00:44:42,618 --> 00:44:45,405 -Very good afternoon, Detective. -Good afternoon, Your Honor. 681 00:44:45,495 --> 00:44:47,861 You are reminded, Detective, that you are still under oath. 682 00:44:49,625 --> 00:44:51,957 -Mr. Cochran, you may proceed -Thank you, Your Honor. 683 00:45:12,856 --> 00:45:16,189 Detective Furhman, was the testimony you gave at the preliminary hearing 684 00:45:16,276 --> 00:45:18,312 in this case completely truthful? 685 00:45:26,161 --> 00:45:28,618 | wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. 686 00:45:31,959 --> 00:45:35,747 Detective Fuhrman, have you ever falsified a police report? 687 00:45:38,757 --> 00:45:41,169 | wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. 688 00:45:44,012 --> 00:45:46,503 Detective Fuhrman, is it your intention 689 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,346 to assert your fifth amendment privilege 690 00:45:48,433 --> 00:45:50,845 with respect to all questions I may ask? 691 00:45:51,895 --> 00:45:52,930 Yes. 692 00:45:53,647 --> 00:45:55,854 -Your Honor, may I have a moment? -Of course. 693 00:46:02,030 --> 00:46:05,113 Your Honor, can we curtail this performance piece? 694 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,736 The witness has already made clear 695 00:46:06,827 --> 00:46:08,442 he will not answer any further questions. 696 00:46:08,537 --> 00:46:11,995 Actually, Your Honor, may I ask just one last question? 697 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,291 Thank you. 698 00:46:20,841 --> 00:46:26,632 Detective Fuhrman, did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case? 699 00:46:36,606 --> 00:46:39,313 I assert my fifth amendment privilege. 700 00:46:39,526 --> 00:46:41,107 [audience exclaims] 701 00:46:44,031 --> 00:46:45,316 [clears throat] 702 00:46:45,824 --> 00:46:47,815 No further questions, Your Honor. 703 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,155 Thank you. 704 00:47:11,308 --> 00:47:12,673 [laughing] 705 00:47:13,018 --> 00:47:16,101 Johnnie is a genius. Did you see what happened in there? 706 00:47:16,521 --> 00:47:17,636 [laughing] Oh man. 707 00:47:17,731 --> 00:47:19,892 Fuhrman framed me. He framed me. 708 00:47:20,067 --> 00:47:21,603 That was something, huh? 709 00:47:22,319 --> 00:47:24,401 It was a real success for the defense. 710 00:47:24,863 --> 00:47:26,899 Well, I won't be wearing these much longer. 711 00:47:28,617 --> 00:47:30,733 Man, that was magical. 712 00:47:31,912 --> 00:47:33,652 Johnnie's got charisma, man. 713 00:47:34,790 --> 00:47:36,030 That was something. 714 00:47:36,291 --> 00:47:37,747 Ohhh. 715 00:47:37,959 --> 00:47:39,244 [chuckling] 716 00:47:39,961 --> 00:47:42,122 Bobby, have a good night. 717 00:47:44,299 --> 00:47:46,130 Wow. 718 00:47:49,638 --> 00:47:51,879 Marcia, I've been looking for you. 719 00:47:52,391 --> 00:47:54,507 -The ruling just came in. -The ruling? 720 00:47:55,143 --> 00:47:56,508 What did Ito do now? 721 00:47:56,853 --> 00:47:59,219 Ito? No, the ruling on your divorce. 722 00:48:11,451 --> 00:48:12,861 I got primary custody. 723 00:48:15,038 --> 00:48:16,244 So you got everything. 724 00:48:42,274 --> 00:48:44,560 [theme music playing] 725 00:49:28,570 --> 00:49:30,151 sferastudios