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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 4, 1995                   TAG: 9510040078
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

CHARGES SOUGHT AGAINST FUHRMAN

As O.J. Simpson went home a free man, a congresswoman Tuesday called for perjury charges against Mark Fuhrman, the police detective whose taped epithets fueled questions of racism in Simpson's murder trial.

Fuhrman, accused by Simpson's attorneys of moving a bloody glove from the murder scene to Simpson's estate, already faces a federal investigation into his taped claims of brutalizing suspects during his career.

He stayed out of sight Tuesday. No one answered the door at his home in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he moved last summer on retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department. His attorney, Darryl Mounger, was out of his office and did not immediately return telephone calls.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she wants Fuhrman prosecuted for lying on the witness stand when he denied having used the word ``nigger'' in the previous 10 years. Later, jurors heard tapes of him using the racial epithet repeatedly in conversations with a screenwriter.

The Justice Department has already opened an inquiry into issues raised by the tapes, in which he discussed beating suspects.

``Now that the trial is over, we can proceed to evaluate all available evidence and conduct future investigations as warranted. We take such allegations seriously,'' said Myron Marlin, spokesman for the Justice Department's civil rights division.

by CNB