From: Jasper
Date: 26 Jan 2005
Time: 21:15:04
Nomi, ……David Miller is a new name to us. If he worked out of West LA in August ’95 with Roberts as the lead detective, he had to have been Roberts’ junior partner, which means Roberts took Fuhrman’s place and Miller took Roberts’. Given Fuhrman’s leadership position in the powerful Police Protective League (the LAPD union) Fuhrman and Roberts probably had more to do with putting Miller where he was than Ron Phillips did. …….. I’m basing this conjecture on the partnering structure of all LAPD investigative units from RHD down to the various precincts and the detectives assigned to West LA on June 12, 1994. That’s the last date for which I have a comprehensive (?) list of detectives assigned to West L.A. According to Ron Phillips testimony in the O.J. trial, he called Fuhrman and Roberts first because they were the most senior detectives he had at his disposal. Fuhrman, who had become a homicide detective in ’91 and had investigated 10 homicides (according to Fuhrman), was Phillips’ most experienced investigator. …….Keep in mind that there is a 14 month gape here which could change everything, although I doubt it because Fuhrman and Roberts were still working as partners into 1995. How far into ’95 is hard to say because the only information on that score comes from Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood book where he doesn’t give specific dates. ……...As a Det. II, on June 12, 1994, Fuhrman was the automatic lead detective because all of the others except Fuhrman’s partner Roberts were trainees. He testified that he attempted to call them but the only one available, the one he called last, was Tom Nolan. He made it sound as though he (Phillips) and Fuhrman were partners and Roberts was partnered with Nolan until Johnny Cochran accidentally cornered him into making it clear that Fuhrman was not his partner. The name David Miller doesn’t come up anywhere in the trial transcripts. Neither do the names of any of the cops Fuhrman said on the McKinny tapes that he worked with who “could have murdered people and gotten away with it” because they were a team and covered for each other. ………I think it would be helpful to know when Miller became a homicide detective and the names of the cops Fuhrman represented as a “delegate” to the PPL. Miller didn’t come out of thin air. ………When I change the board next month I’d like to put up a permanent link to your website. Do I have your permission? –Jasper