RIP -Mark Furman -OJ Simpson Case

[Nittany1997]

For those old enough to remember, Mark Furman died.

Disgraced OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman dead at 74

Disgraced former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who rose to infamy for derailing the O.J. Simpson murder prosecution after it was revealed he had used the N-word, has died at age 74.

nypost.com

 

[CVLion]

Weird… for some random reason I was thinking of this dude and his role in that fiasco just the other day.

 

[LB99]

Have you guys watched the “American Manhunt” series on Netflix? If not, I highly recommend it. There are three. One on OJ. One on Osama Bin Laden and one on the Boston Marathon bombers. Each series has three episodes (I think?). My son got me hooked on watching them. Even though I lived through all of them, there were things I forgot about. It’s worth your time if you are looking for something to watch.

 

[bbrown]

For those old enough to remember, Mark Furman died.

Disgraced OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman dead at 74

Disgraced former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who rose to infamy for derailing the O.J. Simpson murder prosecution after it was revealed he had used the N-word, has died at age 74.

nypost.com

 

[PSUAVLNC]

For me Mr. Fuhrman was the most compelling interviewee's on Erza Edelman's "OJ Simpson - Made in America". There's at least 2 sides to every story.

 

[PSU Mike]

“Never try to frame a guilty man.”

 

[ApexLion]

The issue with Furman was that he lied about his racist language during his career prior to the Simpson case and was slapped with perjury. The lazy interpretation (which was falsely repeated again by the airheads on local news this morning) is that Furman lied about evidence. Not true. He perjured himself on his personal record and then the defense essentially reduced him to a non-factor in the case as the lead detective.

 

[Lil Nicky Scarfo]

“Never try to frame a guilty man.”

A corollary to “never sue a poor person”

 

[WanderingSpectator]

In our group chat, we were commenting on what a crazy sports day it was with the Sabres vs Canadiens Game 7 in OT and the Spurs vs Thunder playoffs in OT. I said, "Now we just need a former football star to go on a slow-speed chase in a white Bronco." An hour later, I saw the post that Furman had died.

For those that don't remember or didn't know... Watch the ESPN 30 for 30 on June 17, 1994.

 

[BUFFALO LION]

For those old enough to remember, Mark Furman died.

Disgraced OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman dead at 74

Disgraced former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who rose to infamy for derailing the O.J. Simpson murder prosecution after it was revealed he had used the N-word, has died at age 74.

nypost.com

“For those old enough to remember”.

Boy, thanks a lot for making me feel “old” the rest of the day! For some of us “old enough to remember”, 1994 seems like yesterday.

 

[bbrown]

“For those old enough to remember”.

Boy, thanks a lot for making me feel “old” the rest of the day! For some of us “old enough to remember”, 1994 seems like yesterday.

 

[DM-Burg Lion]

For me Mr. Fuhrman was the most compelling interviewee's on Erza Edelman's "OJ Simpson - Made in America". There's at least 2 sides to every story.

Fantastic, comprehensive documentary; highly recommend!

 

[Chumboshifko1]

For those old enough to remember, Mark Furman died.

Disgraced OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman dead at 74

Disgraced former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who rose to infamy for derailing the O.J. Simpson murder prosecution after it was revealed he had used the N-word, has died at age 74.

nypost.com

Yowsuh!!!

 

[CVLion]

“For those old enough to remember”.

Boy, thanks a lot for making me feel “old” the rest of the day! For some of us “old enough to remember”, 1994 seems like yesterday.

I was 6 months into my first job after graduating from PSU in December 93 and moving to NoVa. And despite all I’ve been through since, yes it seems like yesterday to me too.

So many of my memories of that first job are intertwined with those of the entire OJ Simpson saga:

- Watching the infamous Bronco chase from my first little studio apartment in Fairfax, VA, and later the unfolding of the three ring circus that was his criminal trial.

- Gathering with maybe 20 coworkers who packed into one colleague’s apartment over a lunch break to eat pizza and watch the verdict being announced in October of 1995. I vividly remember the contrast of the stunned silence that fell over our group as the acquittal was announced versus an instant scream of outrage and a pounding on the wall that came from a woman in the next apartment.

- Traveling to a work conference in L.A. in the fall of 1997, and on the Sunday we arrived, renting a car with my then-wife and a coworker to drive around and see some sites. Morbid curiosity led us to Brentwood to get a look at the Simpson home. We struggled to find it at first, until we realized the street number had been intentionally painted over on the curb and the entire property had been enclosed in maybe an 8-foot-high green privacy fence to deter gawkers just like us. We parked down the block and went to take a peek through a very narrow opening in the gate… there it was, the driveway where Simpson had had his standoff and eventual surrender to the police a few years before. We’d only been standing there maybe two minutes when a black SUV pulled up, the window rolled down, and an extremely familiar voice yelled “Hey!” Not a “Hey, what are you doing” angry voice, but a “Hey there people what’s up” kind of tone — yet it chilled us nonetheless because it was unequivocally OJ Simpson’s voice. The three of us hightailed it back down the street to our rental car. Somewhere I have brief video on mini VHS tape shot on camcorder from down the block of Simpson getting out of his vehicle, playing with a dog that came running out of the opening gate, and talking to some fellow gawkers who had NOT scattered the way we had. It was a truly surreal moment.

 

[PSU Mike]

I was 6 months into my first job after graduating from PSU in December 93 and moving to NoVa. And despite all I’ve been through since, yes it seems like yesterday to me too.

So many of my memories of that first job are intertwined with those of the entire OJ Simpson saga:

- Watching the infamous Bronco chase from my first little studio apartment in Fairfax, VA, and later the unfolding of the three ring circus that was his criminal trial.

- Gathering with maybe 20 coworkers who packed into one colleague’s apartment over a lunch break to eat pizza and watch the verdict being announced in October of 1995. I vividly remember the contrast of the stunned silence that fell over our group as the acquittal was announced versus an instant scream of outrage and a pounding on the wall that came from a woman in the next apartment.

- Traveling to a work conference in L.A. in the fall of 1997, and on the Sunday we arrived, renting a car with my then-wife and a coworker to drive around and see some sites. Morbid curiosity led us to Brentwood to get a look at the Simpson home. We struggled to find it at first, until we realized the street number had been intentionally painted over on the curb and the entire property had been enclosed in maybe an 8-foot-high green privacy fence to deter gawkers just like us. We parked down the block and went to take a peek through a very narrow opening in the gate… there it was, the driveway where Simpson had had his standoff and eventual surrender to the police a few years before. We’d only been standing there maybe two minutes when a black SUV pulled up, the window rolled down, and an extremely familiar voice yelled “Hey!” Not a “Hey, what are you doing” angry voice, but a “Hey there people what’s up” kind of tone — yet it chilled us nonetheless because it was unequivocally OJ Simpson’s voice. The three of us hightailed it back down the street to our rental car. Somewhere I have brief video on mini VHS tape shot on camcorder from down the block of Simpson getting out of his vehicle, playing with a dog that came running out of the opening gate, and talking to some fellow gawkers who had NOT scattered the way we had. It was a truly surreal moment.

I worked at 2 Massachusetts Ave back then. I admit I was apprehensive as the verdict came out.

 

[Bvillebaron]

The issue with Furman was that he lied about his racist language during his career prior to the Simpson case and was slapped with perjury. The lazy interpretation (which was falsely repeated again by the airheads on local news this morning) is that Furman lied about evidence. Not true. He perjured himself on his personal record and then the defense essentially reduced him to a non-factor in the case as the lead detective.

This was a classic case of manufacturing evidence and over trying a case replete with some of the poorest lawyering by the prosecution you will ever see. There was a video of the room where there is no bloody sock and another taken about an hour later with a bloody sock present. Two classic examples of the prosecution’s amateur conduct was (1) not having OJ try on the gloves in camera rather than doing so for the first time in front of the jury and (2) cross examining the defense’s forensic expert by asking him on cross whether he was board certified which enabled the defense to have him explain on re-direct that he wasn’t board certified because he wrote the test that others need to pass to become board certified.

 

[bbrown]

I worked at 2 Massachusetts Ave back then. I admit I was apprehensive as the verdict came out.

I was living and working in Baltimore at that time and yea "apprehensive" was a good word although not as "apprehensive" as I was during the Freddie Gray riots.

 

[KingLando]

I was living and working in Baltimore at that time and yea "apprehensive" was a good word although not as "apprehensive" as I was during the Freddie Gray riots.

Yeah, as soon as the charges in the Freddie Gray incident were released you had reason to be apprehensive--they had no chance of a conviction.