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...through some of the dismissed jurors to the Kato Kaelins and Faye Resnicks, members of this new American gothic have milked the mikes, signed book contracts and chatted on Larry King Live with abandon. But one person whose self-image may be right on target is former detective Mark Fuhrman. "I am the most important witness in the trial of the century," Fuhrman purportedly said during a tape-recorded conversation with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. "If I go down, their case goes...
Judging by the eruptions in and out of Judge Lance Ito's courtroom last week, Fuhrman may have a point. While the weary jury continued to hear dry-as-fingerprint-dust technical evidence, out of their presence a titanic battle was under way over what has come to be known as the Fuhrman tapes. Between April 1985 and July 1994, Fuhrman and McKinny, who was writing a movie script about policewomen, had a series of tape-recorded conversations about police technique, Fuhrman-style. Though the tapes do not specifically offer evidence of Simpson's innocence, they could have a shattering...
...urging of the O.J. Simpson legal-defense team, a North Carolina appeals court issued a ruling that could prove quite damaging to the credibility of one of the prosecution's key witnesses. The panel decided that a screenwriter's taped conversations with Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, in which Fuhrman reportedly used the word nigger and talked of framing black defendants, could be turned over to the defense. Judge Lance Ito will now have to rule on the tapes' admissibility...
...wife, L.A. Police Captain Margaret York cannot be compelled to testify. "In this trial, things shift so quickly, reports Willwerth, "you hardly know what will be important. Two days ago this was the biggest issue of the trial, and just like that the focus has shifted back to Fuhrman...
...York Stock Exchange, advances led declines 1,180 to 1,035 on a volume of 330 million shares. The Nasdaq composite index dropped slightly, finishin down 0.07 at 1,012.37. The S & P index fell 1.17 to 558.57. In London, gold closed at $386.45, up $2.45.Photographs: Fuhrman by John McCoy/Pool Weaver by Tom Shanahan/AP USS Roosevelt by DOD Felix by Bob Jordan/AP Mantle by Eric Gay/AP