Maybe I am "misremembering" but I think Mark Furhman was discredited and maligned because of the things he discussed about a novel he was writing or proposing to write. It seemed very important to folks at that time. Anybody remember this more clearly?
Mark Furhman was an advisor to a writer....gave advice about criminal characters' dialog as I remember. Of course, working w/criminals as a detective, Furhman was an authority of the way THEY talked. The N-word was uttered by Furhman in that context. When O.J.'s attorneys' dragged in that long-ago activity and word use, Furhman was pilloried as a racist, and thus the O.J. trial was off and running to disqualify Furhman's testimony about the glove found at the murder scene and to O.J.'s acquittal.