UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 5, 1995
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Witness to expose Fuhrman as racist
Woman says detective said he would harass multiracial couples
LOS ANGELES — She came forward more than a year ago as a possible witness for O.J. Simpson, and jurors heard her name last March when Detective Mark Fuhrman repeatedly testified that he had never met her.
Relatively invisible since then, Kathleen Bell can avoid the spotlight no more.
Simpson's defense, having lost a bid to play nearly all of Fuhrman's racially explosive tapes for the jury, sees Bell as the witness needed to expose the now-retired detective's extremist views to the panel.
She is nervous about testifying today, her lawyer said, but the playing of Fuhrman's tapes last week in public — outside the jury's hearing — gave her new confidence.
"Her reaction was a sense of vindication," said attorney Taylor Daigneault, noting that Bell's story was attacked by Fuhman's lawyer and others when it was first disclosed in the summer of 1994.
"It's real intimidating to stand up and say anything before 300 million people," Daigneault said. "But people know she is telling the truth, and there's a comfort in that."
Simpson's attorneys planned to call Bell to bolster their contention that Fuhrman was capable of framing their Black client by planting a bloody glove at his estate.
Simpson has pleaded not guilty to the June 12, 1994, slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Whether Bell would be allowed to give jurors her entire account remained open to prosecution challenge.
Bell said that while she worked in Redondo Beach during 1985 and 1986, she sometimes stopped at a Marine Corps recruiting office downstairs to chat. A few times, she encountered another visitor, Los Angeles police officer Mark
She recalled Fuhrman saying he would stop any vehicle occupied by a Black man and a white woman — even if he had no reason.
Fuhrman.
"I remember him distinctly because of his height and build," she has said.
Bell and another woman, Andrea Terry, said they also encountered Fuhrman at a tavern where he again made racist slurs. Terry also is on the defense witness list.
"I then asked Fuhrman, 'What if the two people are in love?' Bell said in an affidavit. "Fuhrman then appeared to get disgusted with me and stated: 'If I had my way, they would take all the niggers, put them together in a big group and burn them."
"I do remember that what he said was probably the most horrible thing I had ever heard someone say," Bell said. "What frightened me even more was that he was a police officer."
At the time her affidavit was filed in August 1994, Furhman's lawyer denounced the defense as despicable and desperate for raising such
Now the same lawyer, Robert Turtelot, has dropped Fuhrman as a client in disgust over Fuhrman's taped diatribes against Blacks and descriptions of police brutality.
claims against him.
A spokesman for Fuhrman said he was acting as a consultant for a McKinny screenplay and made up things to impress her.
Last March, Fuhrman testified that he had never met Bell. He also testified that he had not said "nigger" in the past 10 years. In his taped conversations with aspiring screenwriter Laura Hart McKinney, which began in April 1985 and ran until 1994, he said the word at least 41 times.
With the defense planning to wrap up this week, Simpson's team is expected to launch last-minute attacks on other fronts: a bid for reconsideration of Judge Lance Ito's ruling on the tape and a renewal of one of the first motions ever filed in the case — a plea to throw out all evidence taken from Simpson's estate on grounds that it was obtained by an illegal search.
Drivers must wait for non-stop toll booths
WICHITA — The Kansas Turnpike's electronic toll-collecting system has been delayed two months.
The Associated Press
Drivers wanting to use the K-Tag system, scheduled to begin this month, will have to wait until November before they can drive non-stop through toll booths as their tolls are automatically charged against their accounts.
Turnpike spokeswoman Lisa Callahan said the $6.7 million collection system is taking longer to install and test than originally planned.
"One of the challenges for the system is we are retrofitting these 40-year plazas with this brand-new equipment," Callahan said.
Systems like K-Tag already are being used in other states, but Kansas turnip officials are the first to install it themselves.
The new system won't replace the current payment method, where motorists get a card when they enter the tollroad and pay their accumulated bill when they leave the system. Those booths, manned by humans, will remain.
"We will always have out-of-state and tourist customers. We'll always have toll collections," Callahan said. K-Tag is meant to be an added
K-Tag is meant to be an added service for regular users of the road.
The system will work like this: A motorist will have a small box about the size of a cigarette pack—on the inside of the windshield.
When the driver slows to 20 mph while passing under the tollbooth overhang, a radio beacon will pick up an account code from the customer's box. The K-Tag system will identify the driver, the number of axles on the vehicle and deduct the proper toll from the motorist's account. As this happens, a gate will open on the roadway allowing the slow-moving driver to speed up and continue on.
The system will be sophisticated enough that a driver can use the box with different vehicles, and the K-Tag computer still will be able to bill the right toll, Callahan said.
Eligible K-Tag customers will get a 10 percent discount on tolls and must pay a $1 monthly administrative fee. Each new customer must deposit $40 in a K-Tag account, and the money is deducted as the driver uses the roadway.
If the account drops to zero, the driver won't receive a discount until the account is refilled.
So far, about 1,000 people have applied for K-Tag. A mass mailing advertising K-Tag is being sent this month.
Officials contend the turnip, which is used by more than 24 million cars and trucks every year, needs the new collection system because its volume of traffic is growing every year.
Between 1899 and early 1995 the number of cars and trucks increased 30 percent.
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