Marcia Clark begins Fuhrman's direct examination with an unusual preemptive move: letting him acknowledge on the stand that he is 'nervous' and 'reluctant' to testify due to personal allegations dominating press coverage. She then walks him through the 1985 domestic dispute call to 360 North Rockingham, where he found Nicole Brown Simpson sobbing against a Mercedes with a shattered windshield (caused by Simpson, per both parties' admissions). The examination ends mid-session as Clark moves to inoculate Fuhrman against the Kathleen Bell race allegations by introducing Bell's letter to Cochran as People's 102.
# 3 Q: DETECTIVE FUHRMAN, CAN YOU TELL US HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT TESTIFYING TODAY?
# 7 Q: CAN YOU TELL US WHY?
# 8 A: THROUGHOUT -- SINCE JUNE 13, IT SEEMS THAT I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THE EVIDENCE IGNORED AND A LOT OF PERSONAL ISSUES COME TO THE FOREFRONT. I THINK THAT IS TOO BAD.
# 9 Q: OKAY. HEARD A LOT ABOUT YOURSELF IN THE PRESS, HAVE YOU?
# 11 Q: IN LIGHT OF THAT FACT, SIR, YOU HAVE INDICATED THAT YOU FEEL NERVOUS ABOUT TESTIFYING. HAVE YOU GONE OVER YOUR TESTIMONY IN THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS IN ORDER TO PREPARE YOURSELF OR COURT AND THE ALLEGATIONS THAT YOU MAY HEAR FROM THE DEFENSE?
# 13 Q: AND IN THE COURSE OF THAT PARTICULAR EXAMINATION, SIR, WAS THE TOPIC OF YOUR TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE WORK YOU DID IN THIS CASE, THE ACTUAL VISITATION TO BUNDY AND ROCKINGHAM, WAS THAT DISCUSSED?
# 15 Q: IT DEALT WITH SIDE ISSUES, SIR?
# 17 Q: ALL RIGHT. NOW, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THAT EXERCISE?
# 18 MR. BAILEY: OBJECTION, IRRELEVANT.
# 19 THE COURT: OVERRULED.
# 20 DET. MARK FUHRMAN: I HAVE NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED WITH A CRIMINAL PROCEEDING SUCH AS THIS, SO I WAS -- I THINK IT WAS A CONCERN THAT SOME OF THESE ISSUES HAVE NEVER BEEN BREACHED BEFORE.
# 21 Q: BY MS. CLARK: WHEN YOU SAY YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED WITH A CRIMINAL PROCEEDING SUCH AS THIS, YOU HAVE TESTIFIED BEFORE, HAVEN'T YOU?
# 23 Q: IN CRIMINAL CASES?
# 27 Q: SO WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY "A SITUATION LIKE THIS"?
# 28 A: WELL, IT SEEMS THAT THE ISSUES WE WERE CONCERNED WITH WEREN'T EVIDENTIARY IN NATURE OR ABOUT THE CRIME; MOSTLY OF A PERSONAL NATURE.
# 29 Q: ALL RIGHT, SIR. CAN YOU TELL US HOW YOU ARE EMPLOYED RIGHT NOW?
# 30 A: I'M A DETECTIVE FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO WEST LOS ANGELES HOMICIDE.
# 31 Q: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SO EMPLOYED?
# 32 A: 19 YEARS SIX MONTHS.
# 33 Q: AND IS THAT SINCE YOU HAVE JOINED LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT?
# 35 Q: CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOUR ASSIGNMENTS WERE ON JUNE THE 12TH AND THE 13TH?
# 36 A: I WAS A DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO WEST LOS ANGELES HOMICIDE.
# 37 Q: OKAY. THAT WAS IN 1994?
# 39 Q: IN 1985 AND '88, WHERE WERE YOU ASSIGNED, SIR?
# 40 A: WEST LOS ANGELES PATROL.
# 41 Q: AND WHAT WERE YOUR DUTIES IN THAT CAPACITY?
# 42 A: MOSTLY A PATROL CAR.
# 43 Q: NOW, IN THE WEST LOS ANGELES AREA YOU WERE ASSIGNED TO, SIR, DID THAT INCLUDE THE BRENTWOOD AREA?
# 45 Q: THAT AREA -- DID THAT AREA COVER SOME VERY WEALTHY COMMUNITIES?
# 47 Q: INCLUDE CELEBRITIES?
# 49 Q: NOW, DIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION TO THE YEAR OF 1985, SIR, WERE YOU A PATROLMAN AT THAT TIME?
# 51 Q: DID YOU RESPOND TO A RADIO CALL WHICH LED YOU TO THE LOCATION OF 360 NORTH ROCKINGHAM IN BRENTWOOD?
# 53 Q: AND YOU WERE ON DUTY AT THAT TIME, SIR, WERE YOU?
# 55 Q: CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE NATURE OF THAT CALL WAS?
# 56 A: IT WAS A 415 FAMILY DISPUTE.
# 57 Q: AND WHERE WERE YOU DIRECTED TO GO?
# 58 A: 360 NORTH ROCKINGHAM.
# 59 Q: AND WHEN YOU GOT THERE, SIR, DID YOU SEE ANY OTHER OFFICERS PRESENT?
# 60 A: THERE WAS A WESTEC OFFICER ALREADY AT THE SCENE.
# 61 Q: AND WHAT IS WESTEC?
# 62 A: IT IS PRIVATE SECURITY THAT IS CONTRACTED BY QUITE A FEW OF THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA.
# 63 Q: AND HOW MANY WESTEC OFFICERS WERE PRESENT WHEN YOU GOT THERE?
# 65 Q: DID YOU HAVE A PARTNER THAT WAS WORKING WITH YOU THAT DAY?
# 67 Q: SO THE TWO OF YOU AND THE WESTEC OFFICER WERE THERE?
# 69 Q: WAS THE WESTEC OFFICER ALREADY THERE WHEN YOU ARRIVED?
# 71 Q: WHERE DID YOU GO TO WHEN YOU FIRST ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION?
# 72 A: WE DROVE -- I BELIEVE WE DROVE UP ROCKINGHAM TURNING ONTO ASHFORD WHICH BROUGHT US TO THE ASHFORD GATE WHICH WAS OPENED.
# 73 Q: AND DID YOU DRIVE INTO THE DRIVEWAY OR PARK OUTSIDE?
# 75 Q: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
# 76 A: I WALKED INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND I SAW TWO PEOPLE IN THE DRIVEWAY.
# 78 A: I SAW MR. SIMPSON AND A FEMALE THAT WAS LEANING ON THE HOOD OF A CAR.
# 79 Q: AND WHAT KIND OF CAR WAS THAT?
# 81 Q: AND CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE FEMALE THAT YOU SAW LEANING AGAINST THE HOOD OF THE CAR?
# 82 A: SHE HAD HER HANDS TO HER FACE, SO I COULDN'T TELL MUCH OF WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE IN THE FACE. SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE HAD LIGHT HAIR AND IT WAS HARD TO JUDGE THE HEIGHT, BUT I WOULD CHARACTERIZE AS AVERAGE HEIGHT AND AVERAGE WEIGHT.
# 83 Q: WHAT WAS SHE DOING?
# 84 A: SHE HAD HER HANDS TO HER FACE AND SHE WAS SOBBING.
# 85 Q: AND WHERE WAS THE DEFENDANT AT THAT TIME?
# 86 A: HE WAS WALKING ON THE DRIVEWAY.
# 87 Q: WHICH DRIVEWAY WAS THAT?
# 88 A: HIS DRIVEWAY AT ROCKINGHAM, THE DRIVEWAY ON ROCKINGHAM RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MERCEDES.
# 89 Q: OKAY. DID YOU NOTICE ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THE MERCEDES?
# 90 A: THE WINDSHIELD WAS SHATTERED.
# 91 Q: DID YOU LOOK TO SEE WHAT HAD BEEN THE CAUSE OF THAT WINDSHIELD GETTING SHATTERED?
# 92 A: I SAW A BASEBALL BAT THAT WAS LEANING UP AGAINST THE WALL CLOSE TO THE FRONT DOOR OF THE RESIDENCE.
# 93 Q: NOW, DID YOU GET A GOOD LOOK AT THE WOMAN'S FACE?
# 95 Q: COULD YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED HER AGAIN ON A LATER OCCASION?
# 97 Q: NOW, DID SHE SAY ANYTHING TO YOU AT THE TIME THAT YOU MADE CONTACT WITH HER?
# 98 A: I MADE SOME INQUIRIES WHEN I FIRST WALKED UP AS IF THEY WERE THE RESIDENTS. MR. SIMPSON RESPONDED SAYING THAT THIS WAS HIS HOUSE. AND I ASKED THE LADY WHO BROKE THE WINDSHIELD AND SHE RESPONDED "HE DID."
# 99 Q: DID THE DEFENDANT MAKE ANY RESPONSE?
# 100 A: I BELIEVE HE ADMITTED THAT HE HIT IT AND STATING THAT IT WAS HIS.
# 101 Q: AND WHAT WAS HIS -- WHAT WAS THE DEFENDANT'S DEMEANOR AT THAT TIME?
# 102 A: WELL, HE WAS AGITATED, BUT HE WASN'T OUT OF CONTROL. HE WAS JUST AGITATED.
# 103 Q: COULD YOU TELL WHETHER THERE WAS ANY PHYSICAL INJURY TO THE BODY OF THE WOMAN?
# 104 A: I COULDN'T TELL, NO.
# 105 Q: OKAY. DID YOU SEE ANY SIGNS OF PHYSICAL INJURY TO HER?
# 107 Q: AND DID YOU ASK HER IF SHE WANTED TO HAVE A REPORT PREPARED?
# 109 Q: AND HER RESPONSE?
# 110 A: SHE DID NOT. SHE SAID NO.
# 111 Q: NOW, AT THE TIME THAT THIS -- THIS CONTACT TOOK PLACE, SIR, WAS THE WESTEC OFFICER THERE?
# 112 A: I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN HE LEFT THE SCENE. I DIDN'T -- I WAS CONCERNED WITH THE TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE RADIO CALL. I DIDN'T LOOK BEHIND ME TO SEE WHEN HE LEFT, BUT HE WAS NOT THERE WHEN I TURNED TO LEAVE.
# 113 Q: DID YOU KNOW WHO HE WAS AT THE TIME THAT YOU FIRST APPEARED ON THE SCENE?
# 115 Q: NEVER MET HIM BEFORE?
# 117 Q: AND YOUR PARTNER, DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE WAS AT THE TIME YOU HAD CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT AND THE WOMAN?
# 118 A: MY PARTNER WAS NEXT TO ME OR WITHIN A SHORT DISTANCE OF ME. I WAS TAKING THE LEAD TO AT LEAST ASK THE QUESTIONS.
# 119 Q: OKAY. NOW, DID THE DEFENDANT RESIST YOUR BEING ON THE PROPERTY AT ALL?
# 121 Q: DID YOU ARREST HIM?
# 123 Q: AFTER THE FEMALE INDICATED TO YOU THAT SHE DID NOT WANT TO FILE A REPORT, WHAT DID YOU DO?
# 124 A: WE LEFT THE LOCATION.
# 125 Q: DID YOU WRITE A CRIME REPORT OF YOUR CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT OF THAT DAY IN 1985?
# 127 Q: CAN YOU TELL US, SIR, WHAT IS A DFAR?
# 128 A: A DAILY FIELD ACTIVITIES REPORT.
# 130 A: IT IS YOUR LOG -- LOG FOR ALL THE RADIO CALLS YOU HANDLE THAT DAY, THE TIME YOU ARRIVE AND THE TIME YOU LEAVE.
# 131 Q: OKAY. AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS MAINTAINED BY PATROL OFFICERS?
# 133 Q: AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF IT?
# 134 A: TO RECORD THE EVENTS OF THE DAY.
# 135 Q: NOW, YOU WERE WORKING PARTNERS WITH SOMEONE ELSE; IS THAT RIGHT?
# 137 Q: WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO FILL OUT FIELD ACTIVITY REPORT LOG?
# 138 A: THAT WOULD BE THE PASSENGER.
# 140 A: I WAS THE DRIVER.
# 141 Q: OKAY. DO YOU KNOW WHETHER YOUR PARTNER, THE PASSENGER ON THAT DAY, FILLED OUT A DAILY FIELD ACTIVITY REPORT TO LOG IN THE EVENT OF THE CONTACT WITH MR. SIMPSON?
# 142 A: I KNOW HE MADE A DFAR. WHAT HE PUT IN THE ENTRY, I DO NOT KNOW.
# 143 Q: DID YOU MAKE AN EFFORT TO WRITE ANYTHING ELSE?
# 145 Q: NOW, BACK IN 1985 AND 1986, SIR, CAN YOU TELL US WHETHER YOU KNEW SOMEONE OR MET SOMEONE BY THE NAME OF KATHLEEN BELL?
# 146 A: YES, I CAN TELL YOU. I DID NOT.
# 147 Q: BUT YOU DO RECOGNIZE THE NAME, DON'T YOU, SIR?
# 149 Q: WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU HEARD THAT NAME?
# 150 A: IT WAS IN '94, I BELIEVE IN THE FALL OF '94. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT MONTH.
# 151 Q: BY THE FALL YOU MEAN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER?
# 152 A: SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER.
# 153 Q: AND DO YOU RECALL WHEN YOU TESTIFIED IN THE PRELIMINARY HEARING IN THIS MATTER?
# 155 Q: AND WHEN WAS THAT, SIR?
# 156 A: I BELIEVE JULY 5TH AND 6TH, 1994.
# 157 Q: OKAY. SO YOU FIRST HEARD HER NAME AFTER YOU TESTIFIED AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING?
# 159 Q: AND HOW WAS IT THAT YOU HEARD HER NAME IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT?
# 160 A: IN CONNECTION WITH ALLEGATIONS OF STATEMENTS I MADE TO HER AT A DATE SOME TIME IN '85 OR '86.
# 161 Q: AND WHERE DID YOU HEAR THOSE ALLEGATIONS, SIR?
# 163 Q: AND WERE YOU INFORMED ABOUT A LETTER SHE HAD WRITTEN IN JULY OF 1994 AFTER THE PRELIMINARY HEARING TO JOHNNIE COCHRAN?
# 165 Q: AND HAVE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THAT LETTER THIS MORNING?
# 166 A: I'M NOT SURE IF I REVIEWED THAT LETTER. I DON'T BELIEVE I REVIEWED THE LETTER. I HAVE SEEN A STATEMENT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT WAS THAT INITIAL LETTER.
# 167 Q: SO ARE YOU PRESENTLY VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER THAT THIS WOMAN WROTE TO MR. COCHRAN?
# 169 MS. CLARK: I'M GOING TO ASK THAT THIS LETTER BE MARKED AS PEOPLE'S --
# 171 MS. CLARK: THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
# 173 MR. BAILEY: NO OBJECTION.
# 174 (PEO'S 102 FOR ID = K. BELL LETTER) # 175 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. CAN YOU SEE THE MONITOR?
# 176 DET. MARK FUHRMAN: YES, SIR.
# 178 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN THE DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.) # 179 Q: BY MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT, SIR. DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE PRINTING HERE AND THE CONTENT OF WHAT YOU ARE SEEING?
# 180 A: I'M HAVING A HARD TIME -- SOME OF THIS IS CUT OFF ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
# 181 Q: OKAY. I'M GOING TO ASK JONATHAN TO MOVE IT TO THE RIGHT -- LEFT SO YOU CAN SEE THE REST OF THE LINES.
# 182 THE COURT: MISS CLARK, WOULDN'T IT BE EASIER TO GIVE DETECTIVE FUHRMAN THE ACTUAL COPY, USE THE DISPLAY FOR THE JURY'S PURPOSES?
# 183 MS. CLARK: THE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE AN EXTRA COPY. MAYBE COUNSEL --
# 184 MR. BAILEY: SHE CAN JUST READ THE LETTER IF SHE WANTS THE COURT TO KNOW THE CONTENTS.
# 185 MS. CLARK: I WOULD RATHER SHOW IT TO THE WITNESS, YOUR HONOR.
# 186 THE COURT: I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE MY STAFF MAKE A PHOTOCOPY FOR YOU.