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Summary: Very informitave book
Review: I happened upon the book by accident. No matter what you think about Mark Furhman it was amazing how other people involved in the investigation and prosecution really fouled up the case. I am more convinced than ever of OJ's guilt and I can't believe how much information was left out of the trial. If the OJ Simpson case interests you than you should read this book.
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Summary: GULITY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
Review: THIS BOOK LET'S YOU IN ON THE SECRETS OF THE CASE AND GIVES GOOD DETAILS BUT IT SEEMS MARK FURMAN IS TRYING TO CLEAR HIMSELF OF THE RACIST WORD THE WHOLE WORLD HEARD HIM SAY. IF ANY ONE WHO READS THIS BOOK STILL BELIVES O.J IS GUILTY SOMETHING IS WRONG. I DON'T BELIVE ANY ONE IS THAT DUMB TO LEAVE THAT MUCH EVIDENCE AROUND THE HOUSE IN THE TRUCK AND ON THE VICTIMS. UP UNTIL I READ THIS BOOK I BELIVED THAT O.J COULD HAVE DONE IT AND THAT SOMEONE IN THE POLICE OFFICE TRIED TO MAKE SURE HE WAS CONVICTED BUT AFTER READING IT I REALY THINK SOMEONE SET HIM UP, MAYBE O.J HIMSELF!
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Summary: He Found the Glove, and Bad Luck Followed
Review: The Foreword by Vincent Bugliosi praises Mark Fuhrman as a "thoroughly professional officer", but also says this "is not to be construed as an endorsement by me" (p.xx). In the Prologue Fuhrman says the mistakes he made will forever haunt him (p.xxi). Any apology would be inadequate.Fuhrman plead no contest to the perjury charge, and thinks he got a raw deal (p.252). "I should never have been asked the questions that led to my perjury conviction" (p.6). This plea deal was as lenient as the law allows (p.7). The Los Angeles Police Protective League would not help, even though they financed the defense of accused murderers, rapists, child molesters, and drug addicts! Fuhrman complains that "policemen never get the benefit of the doubt" (p.9). After his plea he decided to write a book to tell his story: he did a good job, he did nothing wrong, but was blamed when the case fell apart (p.9). So what did he do to deserve all this? Fuhrman alone found the blood on the Bronco; he alone found the bloody glove (p.32). Yet he did not discover the blood on the inside of the Bronco (p.35)! He blames the lead detectives for the mistakes that would compromise the case (p.45). Page 48 mentions the brown leather glove found at the crime scene, but the picture shows a black leather glove was found at the Simpson estate! On pages 52-54 Fuhrman tells of a bloody fingerprint seen on the back gate. Was it erased because it was not Simpson's, and would weaken the case against him? Pages 60-76 tell how interrogations are done; you won't see this on TV. Fuhrman again criticizes Vannatter and Lange for their actions, but also said decisions came from "higher up" (p.78). Page 105 gives Fuhrman's comments on the alleged glove planting. "There was not a shred of evidence that I could have done anything like planting the glove. In fact, it could be proved there was no way I could have done so." You can read Steven Singular's "Legacy of Deception" for another viewpoint: "all the blood evidence is suspect". In Chapter 11 Fuhrman gives the allegations, and his facts in denial. Chapter 12 tells of his "professional conflicts" with Judge Ito's wife. Was it now payback time? Chapter 13 discusses the evidence. Fuhrman uses words like "a match with" and "consistent with". The book "Tainting Evidence" explains why these phrases are misleading. Fuhrman says "the blue-black cotton fibers are no doubt from the clothes that Simpson wore". "No doubt"? Can anyone believe that OJ hid the bloody clothes and shoes so they would never be found, but brought the socks and one glove back to his home? Since the forensic evidence said the murders occurred after 11PM, OJ could not have committed these murders. Fuhrman's book is well written. The LAPD's loss is the literary world's gain.
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Summary: Good summer read, compelling investigation details
Review: I picked this book up while in Hawaii to get some beach reading in. I have previously read many of the other books on the Simpson trial including Darden's, Toobin's, Schiller's and Bugliosi's so I am more than familiar with the details of the case from many angles. Still, Fuhrman provides much additional detail about the crime scene investigation that is unavailable anywhere else. In particular, he impugns the incredibly sloppy work by Vanatter and Lange showing how they missed many important details of the crime scene and oversaw sloppy evidence gathering (think, Dennis Fung.) I believe Fuhrman because one only need consider the 32 minute "interrogation" by Vanatter and Lange to realize how poor a job they did. I have always been sympathetic to Fuhrman and felt he was wrongly vilified in the trial. The defense never presented a shred of evidence that he planted anything at either crime scene, a fact that caused the civil judge to disallow the n-word nonsense at that trial. In this book Fuhrman argues his side of the issue and while he is not completely persuasive - he claims he was responding NO to the question of whether he ever addressed anyone directly with the n-word not to its use generally - I remain sympathetic. I believe he was too embarrassed to say he ever used that word in front of the world and an African-American dominated jury. Was he lying when he said that on the stand, yes. Does it matter, no it does not. It was in no way material to the investigation or the case. Fuhrman seems a decent guy, a very good cop, and a not bad true crime writer. I intend to read his other books as well and hope he is able to have some semblance of a normal life.
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Summary: Murder in Brentwood
Review: A Very Good book, After reading it I had a better understanding of what happened in the O.J. Simpson Trial & the mistakes that
were made. Mark Furhman explains his actions, & the mistakes made
by others & how the trial was controlled by the media, & the
defense & Judge.
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Summary: Not worth your time, money or brain cells
Review: Luckily, I got this book from the library and did not waste my hard-earned cash. I know other may, however, make this mistake and I want to warn them: do not buy this book! I sympathize with the other Americans who put up with endless pages of whining and denying. The entire book was trash. On every page, Mark Fuhrman either endlessly denied perjury or blamed. In his mind, he made it very clear, only HE was right, and every one else was wrong. As stated so boldly in this waste of paper, he was the only individual involved in the Simpson case who did everything right. Every one else (Marcia Clark, the other investigators, etc.) made a series of mistakes that Mark himself would certainly have avoided. I have three words for the guy: GET A LIFE! I got this book to read about the investigation and trial, not to hear him complain. And, as a minor addition, it was not at all well written
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Summary: The Entire Ca. Justice System Owes Furhman An Apology.
Review: Altho I am a HUGE fan of true crime books, I never considered reading a book about the OJ trial. I thought I'd rather have an unanesthatized root canal first. Then, I read Murder in Greenwich and Murder in Spokane and couldn't resist this one. I was blown away by this man's ability, canniness and powers of deduction and reasoning. But, I was completely WIPED OUT by the ordeal this man faced, the betrayal by Clark and Darden, the demonization by the defense, the callousness of Ito and his absolute cannablization (SP?) by the press. I thought he was [wronged] by the court system, but emerged as a person to be admired for his honesty, ability to admit mistakes and willingness to learn from them. .... I look forward to reading from this author and wish him and his family the best.
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Summary: Worth Reading
Review: Although I cannot agree that this is the one book to read if you only read one book about the Simpson case, I do agree that Mr. Fuhrman loads his book with great information that is largely unavailable elsewhere. Fuhrman's animosity towards the Dream Team did not impress me much. They revealed him to be a liar on the stand, so what should we expect Fuhrman's reaction to be? ...This is a very useful volume. Fuhrman's account of the crime scene is devastating, not just to myriad theories floated by the Dream Team (that is the job of criminal defense), but far more to reputations of the police and prosectutors. If any part of Fuhrman's account is true, those who "processed" the crime scene missed or destroyed evidence more compelling than some evidence that they trumpeted in court. Fuhrman asserts that the blue-black sweatsuit should have been booked into evidence. He makes it clear that the bloody spot on the Bundy back gate was a thumbprint. As another reviewer has observed, such evidence would have defeated anything the Dream Team could concoct. For these and other reasons, I urge you to read this book to get in better perspective just how lousy the gathering and presentation of evidence were -- and had to be if O. J. was to walk. Do NOT slander the jurors until you see just how much of the most powerful evidence the prosecutors and criminalists and police managed to keep out of court. As you read, never forget that Fuhrman lied and that he appeared willing to stand by as Marcia Clark and her team tried to destroy a woman who would testify to Fuhrman's racism. For all his ploys to gain the reader's sympathy, Fuhrman must admit that he was willing to stand by while the prosecutors demonized a woman who has to this day not been shown ever to have lied. As you read, never forget that that woman and others were prepared to substantiate Mr. Fuhrman's racism. Recall as well that Fuhrman had claimed that his racial animosities interefered with his work. If the Dream Team demonized Fuhrman -- and I believe that they did -- they accentuated what was already present. I am not sure how much Fuhrman's disgrace at the trial mattered, for the jurors have long since made it clear that they did not believe him anyway. As I listened to Fuhrman deny having used the "n-word" in the last decade, I howled in derision. I was encouraged to learn that the jurors silently drew the same conclusions. Neither Fuhrman nor Vannatter was very credible on the search of Simpson's premises, so we cannot have any certainty that Furhman did any further harm by taking the Fifth. Indeed, to read much of this case is to learn that the case was almost certainly lost by summer of 1995. If you read and accept Fuhrman's assertions, you will see that the case may have been lost by the end of summer of 1994.
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Summary: Learn EVERYTHING in one book instead of ten!
Review: I never read this book when if first came out even though I was really 'into' the OJ case like millions of other people. Then, last year, I read the book he wrote about Martha Moxley. I was totally stunned to see what a fantastic writer this man actually is!! So, I decided to read this OJ book. I learned more in Mark Fuhrman's one book than I learned in every other book out on the market concerning the trial. Once again, Mister Fuhrman's book was easy reading. He went into every detail of the evening step by step. He also hand drew little diagrams and information included with photographs which made me understand the scene of the crime a lot better. He also shared with us, many pieces of evidence that were omitted at the trial and his feelings towards many people associated with the case. By the time I reached the end of this book, instead of being 50% convinced of OJ's guilt, I was now 100% convinced. I even wrote Mark and begged him to write about the Jon-Benet murder. Since he wrote about Martha Moxley, a man has been put on trial for this act, mainly due to Mark's evidence from the book. I would love to see the same thing happen if he wrote about Jon-Benet. Great job Mark!!
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Summary: From a different perspective
Review: It was very interesting to read an account of the O.J. Simpson trial from Mark Fuhrman's perspective. The unfortunate thing is that Murder in Brentwood may be discredited because of the way Fuhrman was demonized in the media.
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