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From: Jasper
Date: 8/2/03
Time: 11:16:25 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.199.147
Miss Marple,
I wrestled with the testimony about the “1985” incident for weeks before I wrote Iago and came to a different conclusion than you did. I’m sure that Fuhrman was there. I had a lot of trouble accessing and searching the civil trial transcripts when I was working on Iago. Therefore, I didn’t learn that the incident occurred in ’84 until Kari proved on the Iago Discussion Board that it had to have happened in ’84. However more resources were available then to firmly establish that Fuhrman was there. It came out in articles and media discussions during the murder trial about O.J.’s no contest pea following Fuhrman’s letter to the city attorney. The dispute was about whether O.J.’s version of what happened or Fuhrman’s version was closer to the truth.
O.J. knew the difference between Westec and the LAPD. There were two Westec guys and two cops from the LAPD (Mark Fuhrman and his partner Tom Bantley). One LAPD officer came onto the property. O.J. didn’t know who he was and he had no reason to remember his name or his face.
In the section of testimony you reprinted, O.J. doesn’t say that no LAPD officer was there. He says only that nobody called the police. Nicole called Westec. Somehow Fuhrman just showed up.
In other words, there was no domestic dispute call that Fuhrman responded to in ‘84. O.J. said that he was only there for about 15 seconds and left. O.J. said that the inflammatory details in Fuhrman’s letter simply didn’t happen.
Fuhrman must have gotten his information about the incident from an unofficial source as a personal favor. My best guess is that it came from Mark Day. Rather than making a slip when he said that he learned about Fuhrman being there only after talking to several other people during the criminal trial, I think he said that to hide his connection to Fuhrman in ’84 by making it seem that he didn’t even know the man in '84. It sounded a hell of a lot to me like “Fuhrman talk,” Fuhrman’s tried and true method of distancing himself from guilty knowledge. --Jasper