Roderic Hodge was a defense witness called by Johnnie Cochran to corroborate claims about Detective Mark Fuhrman's use of racial slurs. Subpoenaed from his home near Chicago, Hodge testified on September 6, 1995, about a 1987 incident in which Fuhrman allegedly directed a racial slur at him during an arrest. His testimony landed on one of the trial's most significant days — the same session in which Laura Hart McKinny detailed Fuhrman's recorded slurs and Fuhrman himself invoked the Fifth Amendment. Christopher Darden handled the cross-examination for the prosecution, but Hodge's account added a real-world counterpart to the taped evidence, reinforcing the defense's argument that Fuhrman's racism was not confined to private recordings.