asap. units 230 at the school. we are in route. we are getting a call reporting one individual has a knife. 230 and additional unit. the actor with the knife is in room 213. there is a victim down in room 115. 115. mark ferman former lapd officer. good morning to you by telephone. when you have a suspect with a knife you have to take that suspect down. and there is really one way to do that. you have to get a physical body on that person to take them down unless you can defend yourself with another weapon. if it isn t a knife, it is gun. but you as a detective, former
minutes. mark, why would the fbi be on scene this quickly? they have a lot of resources the police department can use forensically and electronically. it could also be something in this situation where there is something that goes across state line. i don t know. i don t know how close they are to another state line. they could be a resource they called in not knowing what they have. the situation right now, they are talking to the suspect and one of my concern, with such a desperate act so early in the morning and such a random target of victims in ages that were not all in his grade, so you look at the situation and go what precipitated this? what happened before school, at his home, or in his community.
conviction. he s filed for a writ of habeus corpus. finally he s filed for a writ of habeus corpus alleging that his lawyer mickey sherman was incompetent, a claim that is made all the time in our courts and almost never succeeds. it is simply astonishing that it succeeded this time. he said he had a bad lawyer. yes. there are lots of bad lawyers out there and lots of people in prison with bad lawyers. why michael skakel gets out because of that is one of the many mysteries of this case. so do you think he s going to get out? is he going to be out of prison? i think he ll be out within the week. i think he is now his conviction is set aside, and he is a good bail risk. he is not a danger to the community. he is not going to flee. i think he s going to get out on bail. i want you to address some of the points that mr. kennedy is making as well. but let me go back to you, mr. kennedy, for a second. you say you know who actually committed the murder of martha moxley. and do au
and do authorities, people who are investigating this, do they have some of the same information that you have? the police officer investigating this was the one really responsible there was a group of people responsible for orchestrating the conviction of michael skakel. one of them was mark ferman, the other dominic dunn, both writers. and the third was frank garr who was what i would call a crooked police officer who was just dogged in his determination to put one of the skakels in jail and who dug up evidence from people who were absolutely incredible. since i published an article i think in 2003 the atlantic monthly about the case after the trial. after that i was contacted by pun of the people by a man named toby bryant who s actually a cousin of the basketball player,
the only minority on the jury, she actually nodded her head and looked at trayvon martin s parents as well as zimmerman s parents. i also noticed that one of the jurors actually smerkd when o mara was mocking one of the prosecutors. that was kind of funny. six women also, of course, they were very focused as prosecutor john guy said that zimmerman lied. sean: mark fuhrman we have been talking a lot. have you been with us throughout the case. what was your reaction today and the jury instructions? i thought the defense did a great job at laying out every witness statement and every piece of evidence. and then clearly showed how they believe the entire incident went down. and, the second time i saw the arguments both prosecution and defense, something struck me, sean, and that was that the prosecution was clearly afraid of the evidence and witnesses. sometimes their own. and the defense really embraced every piece of evidence and every witness, whether it was prosecution