From: Jasper
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Date: 05 Feb 2005
Time: 18:21:32 -0500
Nomi, ……….I’m guessing that Judge Ito and the D.A.’s office had more to do with keeping Pellicano off the witness stand than Pellicano did. They already had one inveterate liar on their hands in the person of their star witness Mark Fuhrman. They didn’t need another one, particularly one who was working for liar number one and the D.A.’s office and one who had worked for Johnnie Cochran and Howard Weitzman before the murders. ……….Marcia was taking the line that Pellicano’s client Mark Fuhrman wasn’t the racist the defense claimed he was. As far as she knew, the defense had nothing on that score less than ten years old and only three witnesses, Kathleen Bell, Natalie Singer and Roderick Hodge to say otherwise – provided Andrea Terry didn’t testify to corroborate Bell’s story. ………Judge Ito did all he could to restrict the scope of questioning about Fuhrman’s racism. He set the ten year limit on the time interval the issue would be considered. He did not compel Andy Purdy, the LAPD officer whose locker was painted with Nazi swastikas by Mark Fuhrman, to testify. And he kept his mouth shut about his wife’s relevant dealings with Fuhrman as his superior officer (the KKK incident) and as the head of Internal Affairs. When Marcia Clark got carried away and called Bell “a liar” he cautioned her in open court to tread lightly. ………Judge Ito’s wife Captain Margaret York didn’t have to testify, either. After the McKinny tapes came out (Fuhrman said on the tapes that she “sucked and fucked her way to the top”) her dealings with Fuhrman could no longer be brushed aside. She was allowed to give a sworn statement in which she said she couldn’t recall any of that racist stuff and hardly remembered Fuhrman. ……….Do you think that Pellicano might have had something to do with Mrs. Ito’s amnesia and Mr. Ito’s ruling that his testimony was not relevant to the facts being examined? If you were Judge Ito would you want Pellicano on the witness stand? –Jasper