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- Sep. 03, 1990: The Tale Of The Tape
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- The Tale of the Tape
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> In the aftermath of the Marion Barry verdict, federal
- investigators in Washington are scratching their heads over how
- badly their prime bit of evidence--the infamous hotel
- videotape--misfired with the jury. Officials concede that the
- tape made it seem as if Rasheeda Moore, the ex-girlfriend,
- initiated talk about cocaine and induced a reluctant Barry to
- play along. What went wrong? Officials say Moore thought Barry
- mentioned drugs first, in code, by asking her if she had been
- "good." What came through on the tape, though, was that Barry
- was principally interested in "jumping her bones,"as an
- investigator put it. But Moore, now a born-again Christian, was
- resisting his sexual advances and diverting his attention with
- talk of drugs. The FBI thought the scene it was taping would
- be irrefutable proof that Barry did not discourage such
- discussions. The effect was otherwise, and the furor over
- government tactics overshadowed the image of Barry smoking
- crack. "I was just thinking about right and wrong," says a
- rueful agent. "I've learned a lot from this case."
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