BATTLE OF THE FAMILIES

Cochran's summation enraged Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, who held a press conference to denounce the attorney. "We have seen a man who perhaps is the worst kind of racist himself," Goldman told reporters, "someone who shoves racism in front of everything, someone who compares someone who speaks racist comments to Hitler, a person who murdered millions of people." Soon after, Simpson's relatives struck back in a press conference of their own. "It's wrong for someone to get up and personally attack our lawyers," Simpson's sister Shirley Brown told reporters. She said family members know Simpson is innocent. "But all these months, we haven't preached this to you. You don't hear us preaching about Marcia Clark."

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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