Flying, I am officially a fan! That was beautifully and logically put. For years I have said that if he knifed two people, the police would have found a lot more than a speck of blood here and there, and he just didn't have enough time to do it all and get to the airport. I don't think anyone would or has ever argued that he's a nice guy, he's an idiot and a wife beater, but that doesn't make him a murderer. And Merc, I should have known you'd see the logic long ago
Mary, I respectfully disagree with you in your description of our legal system, and so, by the way, do judges and the supreme court. It is an adversarial system, and the defense attorney MUST do everything legally within their power to get the defendant off, whether that person is guilty or not. That is the American justice system, warts and all. You can say it isn't just, but you can't truthfully say that it's not so. Johnnie did his job, did a great job, and he did it within the confines of the law.
I wonder if all the people all worked up over OJ felt / feel the same passion over the murder of Latasha Harlin by the Korean grocer. Or, the innocent Mexican immigrants framed by the Rampart Police Dept (or members thereof). Or the fact that the officers who beat Rodney King were originally acquitted. Somehow, I doubt it. Do these same people remember that it was Johnnie Cochran who tried to get a settlement for Reginald Denny after he was beaten in the LA riots? Or doesn't that matter? Hm, wonder why?
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