Marion Barry was caught on video smoking crack. In a 1990 FBI sting, Barry — the sitting mayor of Washington, D.C. — was finally nailed (rumors had floated for years that Barry was a coke head).
But the jury — 11 blacks and two whites — was hung on 12 of the 14 counts (including the one in which he is actually seen smoking crack with Hazel Diane “Rasheeda” Moore, to which Barry famously said: “B*tch set me up!”). The jury found him not guilty on another, but in the end, convicted him on one count of cocaine possession. He did six months in prison.
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