The day the Simpson verdict was announced — the judge, Lance Ito, had held the verdict overnight, in part to insure that the announcement would receive maximum coverage — was an interesting moment in the history of American race relations.
The David Pipe-trained runner looked to have the measure of Carruthers two fences from home, but Batchelor's mount held the verdict going to the last and sealed victory with a fine leap.
But Judge Kaplan made clear that the Supreme Court had long held that verdicts, however inconsistent, needed to be considered separately.
Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement that the verdict held the officers accountable.
The perp having been collared, the trial held, and the verdict rendered, only the sentencing phase remains.
Rooney's court verdict, held over until the World Cup was finished, was not offered as an excuse for his tired form in June and July.
But after a successful appeal engineered by the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a second trial was held, and the verdict wrote a final chapter to a tale of wealth, passion and medical mystery that divided one of America's richest families, spun off books and movies, including "Reversal of Fortune" in 1990, and captivated much of the nation.
As critics of the verdict held protests and vigils, memorials and tributes, a group of young black men gathered in Brooklyn's Ft. Greene Park, sat on picnic tables, and talked about what it means to be a black man in America.
David Denby, the critic from the New Yorker, announced that his review of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" would be published in the coming week's issue, a full eight days before the embargo date to which critics belonging to the New York Film Critics Circle agreed to hold their verdicts.
Critics of the verdict have held that the move to Albany, a much more white area than the Bronx, played a major role in the verdict for the white officers.
