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...racial set-up they were discussing, it's all crap," he says of defense allegations that Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman planted evidence at Simpson's Brentwood estate. "In any case, with O.J.'s notoriety, racial accusations are bound to arise, but it's almost impossible that they're true...
Judge Lance Ito barred the defense from getting its hands on personnel records of two Los Angeles detectives involved in the O.J. Simpson case. The decision by Ito was a blow to the defense, which had hoped to discredit detective Mark Fuhrman as racially prejudiced and dishonest. Fuhrman testified that he found a glove, which matches one found at the scene of the murders, at the Simpson estate. The defense team has implied that Fuhrman planted the glove to frame the former football star. Ito also delayed the O.J. Simpson trial by one week, to Sept...
Detective Mark Fuhrman, the key investigator in the O.J. Simpson case who has been repeatedly accused of racism by the defense, has been given a desk job, apparently to take him out of the line of political fire. Judge Lance Ito, who's overseeing the trial, forbade the defense access to the officer's military record, ABC News reported. Fuhrman had testified he found a key piece of evidence being used by the prosecution: a bloody glove on the Simpson estate. Fuhrman's attorney said the decision had nothing to do with the Simpson case but added that his client...
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...