Prosecution Lists Witnesses for Trial of Supremacist in Slaying

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they plan to call at least 91 witnesses in their case against white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr., who is accused of killing a Filipino American postman and wounding five people at a Jewish community center in the San Fernando Valley.

About a dozen witness will testify about Furrow’s alleged “planning, premeditation and racial / religious animus,” according to a prosecution memo filed in Los Angeles federal court.

All five victims of the shooting attack a year ago at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills are also scheduled to take the stand. They include three boys, a teenage girl and a woman.

Most of the remaining witnesses will be law enforcement officers, crime scene witnesses, firearms experts and several who will testify about the defendant’s “future dangerousness,” the memo said.

The prosecution team estimated that jury selection in the capital case will take two to three weeks and that the government will need four to five weeks more to present its case. The defense team has not revealed how many witnesses it might call or how long its case might take.