By Demian Bulwa | SF Chronicle
Nearly three decades after his infamous court testimony weakened the prosecution’s murder case against O.J. Simpson, former Los Angeles police detective and media personality Mark Fuhrman likely has no desire to return to the law enforcement trade in California.
California’s Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training began moving to “decertify” officers last year under a new reform law meant to rebuild the public’s trust with police. Records show Fuhrman was declared ineligible, effective May 14, under Government Code section 1029, which prohibits people from acting as peace officers for a number of reasons, including if they have been convicted of a felony.
Fuhrman, who is now 72, pleaded no contest in 1996 to a felony count of perjury for lying at Simpson’s trial about his use of a racial slur. Simpson’s lawyers played a tape in which Fuhrman used the slur, contradicting his earlier testimony that he had not done so in the previous 10 years. Furhman was the only person convicted in any criminal case stemming from the June 1994 knife slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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