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McKinny has said she and Fuhrman first met by chance at Alice's Restaurant in Los Angeles in 1985. When he learned that she was working on a screenplay about the force, he offered his help as a technical adviser who would receive payment only if the script was bought. Over the course of the next nine years, McKinny told PrimeTime Live, she would send him questions and they would then get together to discuss them. "She is the kind of person who feels she needs to live her stories," says someone who was close to McKinny." She just would...
According to partial transcripts and comments by the lawyers in court, Fuhrman describes engaging in police misconduct of the most damning kind: beating suspects bloody, coercion and badgering minorities. Contrary to his sworn testimony last March that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years, Fuhrman's blustering talk on the tapes is laced with that word and contains other terms offensive to African Americans, Hispanics, women and Jews. In a portion of the transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because...
...mood inside the district attorney's office is one of desolation. At best, Fuhrman appears to have lied on the stand, undermining his credibility as a prosecution witness. Even prosecutor Marcia Clark was willing to stipulate, in return for keeping the tapes out of court, that he used the word nigger on three occasions in the past 10 years. And at worst, depending on what portions of the tapes, if any, Ito permits the jury to hear, Fuhrman has breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former...
Since it is likely that the jury will hear at least some of the Fuhrman tapes, the most the prosecution and the police department can do now is scramble to mute their impact. Prosecutor Clark has insisted that Fuhrman is role-playing "a bad boy" on the tapes-and that, in any case, the issue of Fuhrman's racism is irrelevant to Simpson's guilt or innocence. Private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who worked for Michael Jackson during his legal troubles and now works for Fuhrman, also declared last week, echoing Clark, that the tapes just show Fuhrman "talking...
...Fuhrman was in fact spinning some sort of fantasy, he was also weaving real names and police incidents into it. The L.A.P.D., whose reputation has long been bruised by allegations of racism, had barely recovered from the Rodney King beating case when the Simpson trial began. And now, after months of testimony in which the defense has tried to blame sloppy police work and evidence planting for the mountains of blood-soaked evidence against their client, it may have another tough fight ahead. According to Johnnie Cochran, "these tapes have nothing to do with any screenplay. He is talking about...