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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...
...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 Los Angeles...
...Fuhrman "talking a lot of trash. He wanted this woman to be excited about his stories. And he was blustering and posturing and puffing himself up and making himself look macho and everything else that you could imagine." As for the matter of his sworn testimony regarding the word nigger, Pellicano insisted that Fuhrman, who retired from the force this month and now lives in Idaho, was just confused. "Did you ever hear the term mental block? I mean, when someone asks you a question like that, sometimes you don't-you block out everything except what you think...
...interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses framing suspects, and 30 instances of his using the word nigger-language he earlier testified he had not used in 10 years.) By week's end, however, all sides agreed that Ito should continue to preside over the case, and another judge ruled that Captain York could not be called to testify, removing a possible conflict for Ito, who must still...
...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...