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LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman today testified that his heart "started pounding" when he realized that the sticky, blood-soaked glove he discovered behind O.J. Simpson's mansion matched another that had been found near the bodies of Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Fuhrman testified that he came across the second glove near a wall where Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin heard noises on the night of the slayings and that it appeared out of place because it did not have any dirt, twigs or leaves on it. Under cross-examination by defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, Fuhrman...
Prosecutor Marcia Clark launched a pre-emptive strike to fend off the anticipated defense assault on LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who took the stand today. Simpson's lawyers are expected tosuggest that the detective is a racistwho planted a bloody glove in O.J.'s backyard in order to frame Simpson for murdering his white ex-wife and her friend. Today Clark asked Fuhrman about Kathleen Bell, who claimed in a letter to Simpson's lawyers that she once heard Fuhrman make racist remarks. Fuhrman denied ever meeting Bell. The detective also recalled responding to a 1985 domestic dispute call...
Cochran brings another key ingredient to the mix--his credibility in the African-American community. For despite pronouncements by Shapiro and others that race will not be a factor (even in the face of defense allegations of racism on the part of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman)--and despite the fact that the fairness of O.J. Simpson's trial will more likely hinge upon issues of class and celebrity than upon skin color--the specter of racism looms large both inside the courtroom and out. ``Since so many African Americans don't trust the criminal-justice system--and for good reasons...
Detective Mark Fuhrman -- one of the key prosecution witnesses -- hit a photographer who tried to take his picture at Spokane International Airport on Wednesday evening. Fuhrman was looking for a house in Sandpoint, a resort community some 100 miles from Spokane, Wash. As photographer Dan McComb snapped away, Fuhrman shouted: "Get out of my face," grabbed him by the shirt-front and pushed him to the ground, according to an account in The Spokesman-Review, the photographer's employer. McComb had four buttons ripped from his shirt but was not injured.The O.J. Files
...homicide, a scenario the defense team has been busily feeding to journalists for months. At the end of the week the defense launched its counteroffensive with an admissibility issue of its own: Will the jury be allowed to hear racist remarks allegedly made by Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, one of the officers who searched Simpson's house...