...of Fuhrman. Especially the ones published immediately after it happened.

The spin coming out of it was the Bailey was ineffective and failed. That he didn't prove Fuhrman could have planted the bloody glove or that he used the n-word. The "real" cross-examination took about three days in court, and the general opinion was that Fuhrman's stature was bolstered and Bailey sounded like a whiner.

I guess the "other shoe" had yet to drop (the taped convo), but that cross did turn out to be one of the building blocks for the not-guilty verdict.