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From: Jasper
Date: 9/6/03
Time: 6:57:53 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.52.125
Miss Marple,
Your quote was appropriate.
Charlie said, “…ANY kind of admission that the labs and coroners tied to the police and DA's WILL do this stuff to go along to get along or to help the prosecution. Like in the LAPD for example.”
In Death and Justice Fuhrman says, "In my career as a detective, both as a police officer and an author, I have always followed the evidence, wherever it led. My investigation of the death penalty in Oklahoma County has brought me to this conclusion: Death penalty cases are not investigated or prosecuted at a level that can guarantee justice, or even that the accused is actually guilty."
From the Schroeder article, it appears that Fuhrman’s entire “exposé” is built around his discovery that death penalty cases in general are not geared to determining whether the accused is guilty. Fuhrman’s “grumpy” admission that he was accused of planting evidence is not news to anybody who recognizes his name. In Murder in Brentwood he made a case that he was innocent and instead of presenting the evidence that would prove it, the prosecution caved in to political pressure to “convict” HIM to hide its own mistakes in the prosecution of O.J. Simpson.
It looks to me like Fuhrman is simply applying the same principles he argue in “Murder in Brentwood” that got him convicted in court of perjury and convicted in the court of public opinion of allowing a double murderer to go free. Fuhrman is using the execution of innocent men to further argue his own innocence. He is putting himself in their shoes (sound familiar?). --Jasper