Originally posted by plawrence:
[QB] While I believe that OJ was guilty, this was far from a "travesty of justice" Apparently, there was sufficient doubt in the minds of the jurors to acquit,
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Plaw, that Jury was sequestered for a year, and it took them all but 3 hours to reach a verdict! You tell me that they were NOT fustrated, tired and looking to get out of there as fast as they could!
Barry Scheck, who has done an enormous amount of work in freeing innocent people from death row based on DNA evidence which didn't exist at the time of their conviction did not "confuse" the jury.
Before the jury could even be made to understand DNA evidence, they first had ro be convinced that the evidence was uncontaminated and properly handled. All Scheck proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, was that the DNA evidence
was improperly handled and might very well have been contaminated, thus casting doubt on the value of this evidence in the first place, whether the jury was confused by it or not.
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The jury was clueless as far as DNA was concerned! This guys blood was mixed in with her blood all over his Bronco, on his socks, her blood was on his own carpet in his bedroom for God's sake! But Mr. Scheck did a great job in throwing every conceivable theory for tained evidence at the jury, and he did his job well in confusing them about the odds and percentages of it being OJ and Nicoles blood.
What exactly is the "race card"? He proved that Blacks were systematically handled differently by the LAPD based on the police officers racial prejudices, that officers routinely lied in court, etc.
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Get serious here for a minute Plaw! Think back, it's been a long time, but really think hard! Cochran turned that trial into a racial themed trial, making it look as though the WHOLE LAPD conspired to "set him up" becasue he was a black man! That is using the race card. And for your information, his OWN lawyers accused Cochran of using the race card! Funny, A black man killed two white people, and that had NO bearing whatsoever on that case, as it shouldn't have anyway, but Mr. Cochran was cunning enough to turn it all around and make it look to a 99% minority jury, that the LAPD was prejudice and wanted to prosecute him becasue he was a black man. C'mon Plaw!
Let's be objective here. Whether he admiited using the "N Word" or not, Fuhrman was a racist, and the jury had every right to doubt everything he said.
Not because he lied about using the word, but because he absolutely was a racist.
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There, you yourself throw away all the other testimony of abuse, the testimony of the other detectives, the DNA evidence, all becasue Mr. Cochran convinced you that Furman was a racist who set up OJ!
Of what pieces of evidence do you speak?
I read several books as well, and don't recall the prosecution not using anything that would have been admissable.
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Hmm, let's see..... A 2 hour Bronco chase. $30,000 in cash. A disguise, a suicude letter written to Nicole aplogozing for what happened! Pretty damning evidence if you ask me, wouldn' you say? But Mr. Garcetti felt that by putting the whole Bronco thing and all of it's details into evidence that the Jury just ight feel sorry for OJ! LOL! Yet the rest of the prosecution team wanted the Bronco stuff admitted, but Mr. Garcetti overruled them all! Oh and Plaw, OJ was allowed to make a statement at his own trial, but yet he did not have to take the stand. Swift move, I admit, but not really fair if you ask me.
As for Ito, he was a joke! Lost total control of that Courtroom! Intersting thing was that on one occassion, the jury sent him a note that they would like to attend a football game. Judge Ito went to Mr. Cochran and asked him if he could get tickets for the jury! Well of course Mr. Cochran came through with the tickets. No problem there. But then Judge Ito gave the tickets to the jury and when doing so informed them that the tickets were "compliments" of the OJ Simpson Legal Team! Yeah, real ethical behavior by Ito!
No one can ever convince me that this guy was innocent! Civil Rights my ass! If Ron Goldman's father had taken a gun and blown OJ away, would you be standing up for his civil rights Plaw! :rolleyes:
An uneducated Jury.
A Racist Defense Lawyer, a good one, but a racist one.
A celeb client.
A lying Detective.
A star struck judge.
A star struck prosecutor in Marcia Clarke.
A politically motivated District Attorney.
TONS of mixed blood evidence where the chances of it NOT being his and hers was a Trillion to one.
A car chase with damning evidence that is never put into the trial.
A defendant that makes a speech in the courtroom, stands in front of a jury STRUGGLING to get a glove on for 5 minutes, but yet pulls it right off without any problem in 1/2 a second. And the same defendant that was allowed to address the court both physically and verbally on two seperate occasions does NOT have to take the stand!
A bag that is handed over, by the police,
to a friend of OJ's, one Robert Cardasian, on the night of his being taken into custody. And then the very next day Mr. Cardasian suddenly becomes a member of OJ's defense team and now that black bag CANNOT be called into evidence! Haaaaaaa!
Thank God for Civil Liberties! :rolleyes:
But in getting back to Johhny Cochran, there is absolutely no doubt that he was a good lawyer, I cannot deny that.
Don Cardi