Darden Takes The Gloves Off
FOR NINE MONTHS THEY WERE AMERICA’S most obsessively fascinating odd couple. Marcia Clark: feisty, combative, flirtatious. Christopher Darden: sullen, chip on the shoulder, a tormented soul on display before millions of viewers. Darden, through no fault of his own, ultimately found himself in a morass of divided loyalties that was more baneful than Clark’s. An African-American, he was prosecuting a man whom much of the black community–egged on by the defense team–decided was another victim of a racist law-enforcement system....