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Old December 1st, 2008 #14
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Eighteen jurors, intent on missing no detail, watched yesterday as a television screen showed D.C. Mayor Marion Barry taking two long drags from a crack pipe in a room at the Vista Hotel on Jan. 18. It was the first public screening of the FBI videotape that showed Barry's arrest on drug possession charges. Within moments, the screen became a blur of sound and action as FBI agents stormed the room, grabbing Barry, placing him up against a wall with his arms outstretched and reading him his rights before leading him away in handcuffs.
The enraged Barry muttered over and over, "Bitch set me up . . . . I shouldn't have come up here . . . goddamn bitch" -- references to the woman who lured him to the hotel, former girlfriend Hazel Diane "Rasheeda" Moore.
At the moment on the tape when FBI agents rushed into the room, some in the audience gasped involuntarily and Barry sat bolt upright in his chair. His wife, Effi, watching from the front row, grimaced slightly when the FBI agents drew the mayor's arms behind his back, and the handcuffs clicked shut around his wrists. One woman spectator got up and left the courtroom, sobbing.
The 83-minute videotape showed Barry and Moore in dim, grainy images as they talked -- sometimes inaudibly -- of old friends and reiminisced about their affair, interrupted occasionally when Barry reached for the telephone to make calls. The tape was played on a day in which Moore explained her reasons for cooperating with the FBI and faced her first cross-examination by the mayor's attorney, R. Kenneth Mundy.
As the most dramatic day of the mayor's 18-day trial was drawing to a close, another drama was unfolding in the corridor: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, accompanied by more than a dozen followers, arrived to attend the trial, only to be barred from the courtroom by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
"His presence would be potentially disruptive, very likely intimidating, and he is persona non grata for the {rest} of this case," Jackson said in open court, but out of the presence of the jury. "He is barred henceforth for the duration of this case from this courtroom."
Judges ordinarily are granted wide latitude to bar someone they conclude might disrupt a proceeding.
After being barred from the courtroom, Farrakhan told reporters outside the courthouse, "This is part of the double standard that black people have been under since we have been in this country." Barry's trial, he said, "demonstrates the wickedness of the United States government and the lengths to which this government will go when it targets a black leader to be discredited."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...arry/video.htm

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Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936), is an American politician who served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. He was the target of a high-profile 1990 arrest on drug charges, which precluded him from seeking reelection that year. After he was convicted of the charges, Barry served six months in prison, but was elected to the D.C. city council in 1992 and ultimately returned to the mayoralty in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999. Today, Barry again serves on the city council, representing Ward 8, which comprises Anacostia, Congress Heights, Washington Highlands and other neighborhoods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry
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