The link isn't worth following. I just thought I'd share a thought. I watched this show tonight and was shocked that I had forgotten one critical fact. Mark Fuhrman was asked, under oath, if he had ever falsified police reports or planted or manufactured evidence in the Simpson case - and he pled the fifth!
There are complex legal reasons why he had to do that, but that sure looked bad.
(And if true, could have gotten Fuhrman the death penalty! At the time, according to Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi in his book "Outrage," California law held that anyone who fabricated evidence in a death penalty case could be sentenced to death themselves!)
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Trial of the Century:The Simpson Trial Begins As The World Watches - Investigation Discovery
Trial of the Century:The Simpson Trial Begins As The World Watches | Investigation Discovery
He never would've had to plead the 5th if Ito hadn't incompetently allowed racial issues into the case. Fuhrman was just the initial detective on the case for a few hours total; he had little to do with it. The crafty defense team found 10-year-old tapes in which he'd said the "N-word" and he lied about saying it, which was utterly irrelevant to the case since there was no evidence he planted anything. Thanks to Ito, Cochran turned it into a bizarre satellite trial of "The Fuhrman Case", ludicrously labeled him a "twin of deception", the prosecution did nothing but distance themselves from Fuhrman thereafter, the mindless jury bought that crap, and the rest is sad history. R.I.P. Vince Bugliosi.
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