From: Jasper
Date: January 29, 2006
Time: 02:37 AM
Rose, …The neatness of Fuhrman’s hand printing is only part of the story. I, too, have known people who could write three times as neatly in a third of the time that I could scribble. The neatness of Fuhrman’s notes becomes an issue only when you consider the composition structure, the content and the order of the items. ………In both the March ’97 hardcover and the June ’97 paperback, you get the same copy of the notes. At the top, you see only the lower portion of words that could be “Notes by Det.” Below those words is the name “FUHRMAN.” Below his name is, “#21464”. His name is not written clearly. The “F” could be a “P.” The “H” looks like an “A.” The real A is tough to associate with any letter in the alphabet. None of these letters in the body of his text is written that poorly with one possible exception (more about that later). In short, the name LOOKS like it was written in haste. The rest of it doesn’t. ………..That’s just for starters. Fuhrman’s name does not appear on the paper where he wrote his original notes – the one shown on the projection screen in Judge Ito’s courtroom. Philips knew where the notes came from but there is nothing I can find to indicate that Vannatter did. The first line of text is “—At scene 0210 hours –875 S. Bundy” ………….It is so close to the top edge that the # 21464 (presumably Fuhrman’s badge number barely fits below it without intruding on the first line. The first clear name on the page of an LAPD officer is “—Sgt. Rossi, AM Watch Asst W/C.” He then says, “Commander briefed Dets on scene.” He does not say who the detectives were. These omissions practically guarantee that if Fuhrman gave his notes to Phillips and Phillips gave them to Vannatter they would go no further until Fuhrman wanted them to. ………..Again and again the content of his notes predict what Fuhrman is going to do and the sequence predicts the order in which he will do them. Yes, he could have written everything down as he said in the five or ten minutes after Riske finished giving him the tour and the time Roberts showed up. But he had an hour and a half to rewrite these “preliminary” notes and put them in order of chronology or significance before Vannatter arrived. That means he had plenty of time to reorder the items as he said he planned to do later and didn’t do it. He told no one of his most significant observations and he did not put his name on the bottom of the last page where he had plenty of room. ………..These notes, just like the pointing finger photo and the photo with the neatly handwritten Mother’s poem have all the earmarks of being staged by Fuhrman for the camera with hours, if not days to think about it and refine it as he went along. His name added to the top of the page in his book does not. –Jasper