59 Facts About Mark Fuhrman

Mark Fuhrman was born on February 5,1952 and is a former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Mark Fuhrman is primarily known for his part in the investigation of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in the O J Simpson murder case.

In 1995, Fuhrman was called to testify regarding his discovery of evidence in the Simpson case, including a bloody glove recovered at Simpson's estate.

The defense claimed that Mark Fuhrman planted key evidence as part of a racially motivated plot against Simpson.

Mark Fuhrman has claimed that he is not a racist and apologized for his use of racist language.

Mark Fuhrman maintains that he did not plant or manufacture evidence in the Simpson case, and Simpson's defense team did not present any evidence to contradict this claim.

Mark Fuhrman was born in Eatonville, Washington on February 5,1952.

Mark Fuhrman attended Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, Washington.

Mark Fuhrman's parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother remarried briefly.

Mark Fuhrman received workers' compensation and remained on paid leave until 1983.

Mark Fuhrman claimed that he was afraid he would kill someone if he were returned to street patrol.

In 1983, Mark Fuhrman lost his case, and a subsequent appeal to Superior Court was rejected; therefore, Mark Fuhrman returned to active duty as a police officer.

In 1985, Fuhrman responded to a domestic violence call between retired NFL football player O J Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

In October 1994, he worked to prove the innocence of Arrick Harris, an African-American male who Mark Fuhrman believed had been falsely implicated for murder.

Mark Fuhrman retired from the LAPD in early 1995, after serving as a police officer for 20 years.

Mark Fuhrman responded to one of these calls and encountered Brown hiding in her Mercedes as Simpson was trying to break the windshield with a baseball bat.

At least 14 officers and supervisors, some of whom arrived on the scene before Mark Fuhrman, reported seeing only one glove.

Mark Fuhrman was familiar with Simpson and Brown because of the 1985 domestic violence call.

Mark Fuhrman left Brown's condominium with Ronald Phillips and lead detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter, and went to Simpson's Rockingham residence.

At the Simpson residence, Mark Fuhrman found a number of blood drops in and on a white Ford Bronco parked outside.

Mark Fuhrman then climbed over the wall of the property in order to let in the other detectives.

An investigation of the property by Mark Fuhrman produced a second bloody glove, which was later determined to be the right-hand mate of the glove found at the murder scene.

Specifically, Simpson's defense team alleged that Mark Fuhrman planted the glove found at Simpson's estate as part of a racially motivated effort to frame Simpson for the murders.

The trial began on January 24,1995, and Mark Fuhrman took the witness stand for the prosecution on March 9.

The defense tried to introduce witnesses and audiotape evidence to prove that Mark Fuhrman had lied under oath, that he had a particular animus against interracial couples, that he had a history of perpetrating violence against African-Americans, and that he had a history of being willing to fabricate evidence or testimony.

Between 1985 and 1994, Mark Fuhrman gave taped interviews to McKinny, a writer working on a screenplay about female police officers.

Mark Fuhrman was working as a consultant for McKinny on the understanding that he would be paid $10,000 if a movie were produced.

Mark Fuhrman argued that Fuhrman had planted the bloody glove on Simpson's estate as part of a racially motivated plot against Simpson, which could be traced back to Fuhrman's first encounter with the interracial couple in 1985.

Mark Fuhrman was sentenced to three years' probation and fined $200.

Mark Fuhrman is the only person to have been convicted of criminal charges related to the Simpson case.

Mark Fuhrman's probation ended early in 1998, and his felony charges were expunged 18 months later.

Mark Fuhrman said he is not a racist, and apologized for his use of racist language.

Mark Fuhrman said he had forgotten about the existence of the audiotapes and that they were merely part of a misguided effort to have a fictional screenplay produced.

Bugliosi further argues that Mark Fuhrman was one of the victims in the case and that his lying under oath about racial epithets did not rise to the level of indictable perjury, because it was immaterial to the actual facts of the case.

Mark Fuhrman argued that Lungren had charged him to garner black support for a planned campaign for governor of California, in 1998.

Mark Fuhrman claimed that he could not afford to mount an adequate defense; he already owed thousands of dollars in legal bills, and the city's Police Protective League would not help him pay them.

Mark Fuhrman claimed that he could not pay the living expenses for a trial that would take several months.

Mark Fuhrman believed that he could not get a fair trial in the racially charged climate of the time, and he thought that an acquittal would have caused a riot which would have been similar to the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Mark Fuhrman wanted to protect his family from harassment by the press.

Mark Fuhrman argues that several errors which were made by his LAPD colleagues permitted the defense team to allege that there was suspicious police conduct at Nicole Brown Simpson's residence.

For instance, Mark Fuhrman has claimed that the initial search warrant which was submitted by one of the detectives who was investigating the case, Phillip Vannatter, was too short and it did not include enough details regarding the probable cause and the evidence which was on hand at the time.

Mark Fuhrman has argued that major pieces of evidence were mishandled and he believes that his colleagues did not realize that their every move would be scrutinized in court due to the nature of the case.

Mark Fuhrman asserts that the police and the prosecution made other errors that reduced the chances of a guilty verdict.

Mark Fuhrman later discovered that Vannatter and Lange did not even know that the fingerprint was there because they never read Mark Fuhrman's notes.

Mark Fuhrman has said that he feels that the prosecution abandoned him once the tapes were made public.

Mark Fuhrman said that he pleaded the Fifth Amendment after he could not get the prosecution to call him to the stand for a redirect prior to the playing of the tapes for the jury.

Mark Fuhrman has said that once the tapes came out, his reputation as a credible witness would have been nearly beyond rehabilitation.

Mark Fuhrman felt that Judge Lance Ito allowed the defense to control the trial.

For instance, like Bugliosi, Mark Fuhrman insists that relevant case law demanded that Ito foreclose the defense from asking him about racial slurs, since any potential relevance was outweighed by the prospect of prejudice against the prosecution's case.

Mark Fuhrman asserts that Ito should have never been assigned to the case in the first place, because Ito was married to Margaret "Peggy" York, an LAPD captain who had been Mark Fuhrman's superior officer in the past.

Mark Fuhrman felt that Ito should have been challenged by the prosecution or he should have voluntarily recused himself from the case on that basis.

In 2001, Mark Fuhrman published Murder in Spokane: Catching a Serial Killer, which investigated a serial killer's spree in Spokane, Washington.

In 2005, Mark Fuhrman published Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death, which emphasized gaps in the medical and legal records that might allow for the possibility that Schiavo was murdered.

In 2006, Fuhrman published A Simple Act of Murder: November 22,1963, about the John F Kennedy's assassination.

Mark Fuhrman claimed that the Warren Commission was forced to ratify the single-bullet theory for political reasons.

Mark Fuhrman is a forensic and crime scene expert for Fox News, and he has been a frequent guest of Fox commentator Sean Hannity.

Mark Fuhrman was the host of the Mark Fuhrman Show on KGA-AM in Spokane.

Mark Fuhrman was a collector of various war memorabilia and medals.

In Murder in Greenwich, Mark Fuhrman is portrayed by Christopher Meloni.