Word: fuhrmans
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First came the explosive charge. The defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder case, it was leaked, was planning to accuse one of the police investigators, Mark Fuhrman, of being a "racist" cop who may have planted the bloody glove found in the area behind Simpson's guest house the day after the brutal slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Then came the disclaimer. "Race is not and will not be an issue in this defense," said Robert Shapiro, Simpson's lead attorney. "The only thing we are looking at is credibility of witnesses...
...issue of domestic violence, the Simpson drama is being transformed into a national teach-in on the gulf that exists between black and white attitudes toward America's criminal-justice system. The shift came in a flurry of news leaks and public announcements. In raising questions about Fuhrman, the defense team unearthed a 1983 lawsuit, brought by the Los Angeles detective seeking disability benefits, in which he admitted to harboring hostile feelings about blacks and other minorities. While Fuhrman denied charges that he planted evidence, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti spent nearly two hours with black city leaders...
...prosecution took refuge in one of the exclusionary rule's exceptions: such evidence is admissible if the searchers can show that they stumbled upon it while responding to a perceived emergency. Homicide detective Mark Fuhrman maintained that he and three colleagues had driven from the murder scene to O.J.'s home not to investigate but simply to inform him of Nicole's death and arrange for their children's care. The detectives, puzzled to see lights on in the mansion at that hour (5:10 a.m.), received no answer through the intercom at the gate. When Fuhrman discovered what...
Midway through this he encountered Kaelin, heard his tale of bumps in the night, rushed to the service path and discovered the glove. "My heart started pounding," Fuhrman told the court. "I realized what I had finally found" -- presumably the possible key to a double murder. The officer stressed that it was not something he had been looking for: "I was kind of taken aback by the whole event," he said. "We didn't go up there for this...
...Hasty Pudding Club, which, under a new plan, recycles its large shipments of bottles through the University, now leaves smaller quantities of bottles in Apley Court for the homeless to collect, said Alexandra L. Fuhrman...