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From: Jasper
Date: 8/6/03
Time: 8:19:54 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.202.97
Miss Marple,
Mark Day did say that another Westec officer arrived. He also said that he was there while he waited for the police (no reason to wait for the police because no one called them unless he did). Westec worked for O.J. It was the private police for his neighborhood. The LAPD worked for the city of Los Angeles and its suburbs.
LAPD cops and Westec security officers wore clearly distinguishable uniforms. They were different in style and color. In 1984 Ron Shipp was an LAPD officer. O.J. knew the difference. When he was asked, “How many times did the police come out as a result of incidents involving Nicole and you?” he answered, “Counting '89, two other times.” One time was in ’84 when an LAPD officer miraculously appeared in his front yard.
Mark Day’s statement to Vannatter, Thompson and Darden didn’t agree with Fuhrman’s until he modified it on the witness stand in the civil trial. Part of Westec’s job would have been to keep embarrassing things like the baseball bat incident out of the tabloids. From Darden’s perspective Day was a loose cannon. He could have said anything.
In ’84 O.J. would have viewed the LAPD presence as a threat, although he would not have bothered to identify the officer that spoke to him if that officer gave him no reason to take his name and badge number. The man in the LAPD uniform (couldn’t have been a Westec uniform) was there for only a few seconds. He said nothing threatening and he left. His identity didn’t become an issue until O.J.’s murder trial eleven years later.
That’s one reason that I don’t believe O.J. saw Fuhrman’s letter until 1995. He would have challenged it. He entered a plea of no contest to a misdemeanor in the ’89 incident based on the advice of his attorney Howard Weitzman. No doubt WEITZMAN saw the letter and advised O.J. accordingly. It would not have made sense to challenge a “trivial” matter like that when the solution to keeping O.J. out of jail and a criminal charge off his record was as simple and painless as accepting it. O.J. gave no hint of knowing who Fuhrman was until the rest of the country did in the preliminary hearing. Marcia brought up the baseball bat incident in the criminal trial.
The thing that grabbed me about Fuhrman not mentioning the baseball bat incident to Laura Hart is that he didn’t do it before or AFTER he wrote the letter. Sure he wrote it to nail O.J. But as I said before he never did anything big for ONE reason. He planned carefully, anticipated his needs, studied the results and adjusted on the fly. He edited the “details” of the past as necessary to achieve current, short-term goals.
Working backward from June 13, ’94, the ’89 letter looks too much like a steppingstone to frame O.J. for murder. Fuhrman pulled the same trick by starting rumors in ’92 of having an affair with Nicole. Only after the ’89 incident could he link his name to the Simpsons without question even when he was doing something wrong. I think he kept quiet about the ’84 incident because he screwed up royally by being there (O.J. was still the good guy) and hadn’t yet figured out how he could use the mistake to his advantage. All it took was a little editing of the details. The rest could be confirmed. –Jasper