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From: Jasper
Date: 9/14/04
Time: 1:50:36 AM
Remote Name: 68.255.165.151
Ludwig,
One member of the dream team did continue after the criminal trial. Robert Blasier, who destroyed Greg Matheson and forced Fuhrman to take the Fifth repeatedly, continued with O.J.’s defense in the civil trial but refused to comment on his guilt or innocence.
All of O.J.’s criminal trial lawyers took a heavy cut in their usual fee. Afterwards, Cochran, Bailey, Blasier, Douglas and (believe it or not) Shapiro took strong stands in favor of their former client. All of them said, unequivocally, that O.J. was innocent. Cochran and Shapiro said it in their books. Bailey said it in the media every time he got the chance. But when Cochran got his own Court-TV show he stopped saying, “O.J. didn’t do it” and started saying, “It’s time to move on.” That’s what he did. He moved on.
Bailey went on a campaign to prove his theory that Fuhrman saw both gloves on Bundy and planted one of them on Rockingham. According to his shoeprint theory, the killer wore shoes that were much smaller and much thinner than the ones the prosecution claimed he wore. I looked at the photo he used for proof and saw that he read it incorrectly, thinking that the picture frame was the outline of the tile. It gets worse and all of it leads away from Fuhrman as a murder suspect.
Fuhrman got Baden’s help in Murder in Greenwich. He makes him a hero in his movie.
Scheck and Neufeld defended their work in the O.J. case but dodged every question about whether they thought O.J. was guilty. They were deeply involved in the Innocence Project and impatient to get off of O.J. so they could talk about that. Fuhrman planted himself firmly in their corner with his latest book Death and Justice.
Shapiro had so many key facts wrong that I had trouble getting though his book. His split with the dream team was over the emphases Cochran and Bailey (especially Bailey) put on Fuhrman’s racism. He didn’t think that Fuhrman’s racism had that much to do with it and blamed Bailey for “abusing the issue” to win the case.
What chance do I think the dream team had of ever identifying Fuhrman as a murder suspect? None. –Jasper