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From: Jasper
Date: 5/3/03
Time: 1:30:36 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.59.58
Miss Marple,
Your posts should be required reading for everyone interested in the O.J. case (everyone PLEASE check out Miss Marple’s Partners posts and 911 posts on the Knowledge Base Board).
Intelligence and IQ are different things. Some people test well for intelligence and some don’t. Common experience tells us that we don’t need a number to know who is smart.
IQ does measure some rare abilities, although I believe they can be taught, and it leaves behind clues that are not obvious to everyone. Fuhrman left those clues behind in his testimony and in his first book. The killer left those clues behind on the murder scene. Remember, we are talking about a very rare trait (forget the IQ stereotypes). What are the odd that we are dealing with two different people?
You talked about toddler Fuhrman before (have to get that archive up for The Smoking Gun board) and your suspicion that his mother encouraged his clever lying. I think that the documentary you watched shows that you were right on.
It’s hard for me to answer your posts about Fuhrman because both of us have spent so much time walking around in his head. It’s hard to get leverage to add something new. I agree with you about Fuhrman’s lies setting up the other detectives to lie and setting up Marcia to do likewise. None of them were going to admit that they “peeked at the toy.”
For me, the most interesting lies in the case were the ones that Phillips told to back up Fuhrman’s claim in the preliminary hearing that they were partners. I got the impression that he wanted to tell as much of the truth as he could without betraying his friend. That didn’t leave much room for the truth.
Lets break this down a little further…
Exactly why did Phillips lie about being Fuhrman’s partner?
I don’t think he would have lied if he didn’t understand the full implications of the truth.
What were some of those implications?
Det II Fuhrman, not Det. III Phillips set the tone for the entire investigation.
Det. I Roberts was more important to the conducted of the investigation than Phillips wanted anyone to know about.
It exposes the entire issue of who drove which cars where and when (which you traced to the FACT that Fuhrman did not go back to Bundy to compare gloves).
What do you think? --Jasper