
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 10, 1995                   TAG: 9505100065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

FUHRMAN SUES NEW YORKER

Detective Mark Fuhrman has filed a libel lawsuit against The New Yorker magazine, claiming his reputation was destroyed by an article that speculated he had planted evidence to frame O.J. Simpson.

The July 25 article, titled ``An Incendiary Defense,'' quoted unidentified Simpson lawyers who called the white detective a racist and suggested he may have tried to frame the black football star by taking a bloody glove from the murder scene and putting it on Simpson's estate.

In the story, writer Jeffrey Toobin called it an ``ingenious'' theory that ``is also monstrous.''

The lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Superior Court and seeks $50 million, allows for the addition of defendants who are ``as yet to be identified leading members of the Simpson defense team.''

``We're going to interview every member of the defense team and if every one of them denies telling Mr. Toobin anything ... we're going to take the position that Mr. Toobin made it up,'' Fuhrman attorney Robert Tourtelot said.

The magazine said the lawsuit was without merit.

- Associated Press

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