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J anuary 10, 1996 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Jurors in (he O J. Simpson case
covered the case — Vanity Fair’s
d e ro g a to ry s ta te m e n ts a b o u t
are writing books defending their
Dominick Dunne, the New Yorker’s
blacks...”
speedy “not guilty” verdict, saying
Jeffrey lobin, Joe McGuinness and
At the time, Cryer dismissed de
the defense did not win the sensa
Joe Bosco.
fense attacks on Fuhrman as a racist
tional trial — the prosecution lost it.
C ryer said flatly he does not
as nothing more than “a dog and
At least two such books are
know if S im pson was guilty or
pony show" designed to deflect at
planned One written jointly by three
not — all he know s is that the
tention from the strong prosecution
panelists will be out soon.
p ro secu tio n never proved its case
case.
Black juror Lionel Cryer and New
beyond a re a so n a b le d oubt, as it
But he said once it became clear
York lawyer Donald Cayea say they
had to do. He said he was im
that Fuhrman had lied about fre
want to dwell on how an initially
p ressed in itially w ith the p ro s
quently using the racial epithet
impressive prosecution case fell
ecu tio n case and its star w itness,
"nigger," he began tothink the detec
apart, creating wide areas for reason
L os A n g e le s p o lic e d e te c tiv e
tive may have lied about everything.
able doubt over whether Simpson
M ark F uhrm an, who told o f fin d
"I thought it was possible he had
murdered his ex-wife Nicole and her
ing a bloody glove at the Sim pson
planted the glove,” he said.
friend, Ronald Goldman.
estate.
Cayea said Cryer wanted to write
Their book will offer an extensive
C ry er, in a note dated M arch
the book because the jurors were
critique of the trial system, espe
16, wrote, "The defense will need an
being criticized for being too stupid
cially sequestration of juries in con
extremely credible witness to dis
to understand the evidence in the
troversial cases and how televising
pute his (Fuhrm an's) testimony if
S h o w th e o n e y o u lo v e h o w m u c h y o u c o r e w ith a g if t th a t la s ts fo r e v e r !
case. Instead, he said, they under
trials turns them into circuses.
they want me to believe that he made
stood it only too well.
Cryersayssequestration made him
feel like a prisoner — "meat on a
hook” — and at times he wondered if
the guards could tell the difference
between the jurors and the criminals
they usually supervised. "I wanted
out of there. I would say that seques
tration was a contributing factor to
the speedy verdict," he said in an
interview.
The mostly black jury has been
criticized forreaching a verdict within
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also exposed a gaping racial divide
in America.
The book by the three jurors,
forewoman Armanda Cooley, Carrie
Bess and Marsha Rubin-Jackson, will
be published by Dove, a Los Angeles
publishing house that has turned the
Simpson case into a cottage industry.
"This book will really change
everyone's view of the jury,” Dove
publisher Michael V inersaid. He
said the three jurors received a six-
figure advance.
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the book on how the prosecution
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These points are also strongly
made by Cryer, who in notes made
during the trial wondered if two ju
rors were developing a romance. The
jurors’ writing plans come at a time
when almost everyone involved in
the case except Simpson himself has
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