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From: Jasper
Date: 14 Jul 2000
Time: 12:36:25
Jean,
You may not be able to pick this up from the transcripts but the police did search the rest of the house -- that is, Fuhrman and Roberts did. That's when they "found" the socks on O.J.'s rug. During the criminal trial the prosecution made it appear that Vannatter, Lange, Phillips and Fuhrman were the only detectives there at that time. No mention was made of where Brad Roberts and Tom Nolan were. We know only that Roberts had his own police car and later in the day he left Rockingham in that car with Fuhrman behind the wheel.
Somewhere between 6:45 when Fuhrman found the Rockiham glove and 7:10 when Vannatter went to get a search warrant, it appears from Fuhrman's book that he and Roberts searched O.J.'s bedroom. Luper, who found the clean black glove without a match in O.J.'s bedroom closet and left it downstairs, wasn't even assigned to the case until 8:00. Naturally, Fuhrman couldn't say that he conducted an illegal search of the house before the warrant was issued, but had he been challenged on the question of his concern for possible intruders he could have given that as his reason for being upstairs in O.J.'s room.
Remember the pattern of multiple-story possibilities in Fuhrman's scenarios that I talked about with Moonlighting and Twin Peaks on The Smoking Gun board? This is another example. --Jasper