Murderer Pastor's Wife Regains Custody of Children

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Actually the Dfense screwed up big time by having the Juice put on the gloves. But even then Im not sure that was a reasonable doubt. Hearing the Jury it sounded like some of them were doing their version of 'reverse justice'.

BTW those cops that beat Rodney King did more time for a man that was able to walk away and got millions as a result than the thugs that smashed open that truckers head did during the riots with a huge brick...

Reginald Denny I think was his name. Our Justice system is fine, it's our citizens that are messed up.

The defense didn't screw up, they pulled it off. The glove thing was Cockroaches doing, not Flea. They won inspite of Cockroaches antics.

[tstew]

Originally Posted by Sassy

YOu mean....no matter how mad I get at my husband....I can't take him out? j/k

Justice was not served...this case will let others think they can do the same.

Or maybe the next local jury in that area will be so motivated to fix it that they will go overboard.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

The defense didn't screw up, they pulled it off. The glove thing was Cockroaches doing, not Flea. They won inspite of Cockroaches antics.

I meant the prosecution

[tstew]

The police did things that left too much room for bright lawyers to raise reasonable doubt...especially in a case that never had overwhelming physical evidence in the first place.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by tstew

The police did things that left too much room for bright lawyers to raise reasonable doubt...especially in a case that never had overwhelming physical evidence in the first place.

That is true too, but not to the point that the evidence was tainted. More like they were able to exploit the "don't trust the police" facter coupled with that Detectives racist comments he made for that book and that he lied...they used that to suggest the police planted evidence

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I meant the prosecution

Again that is wrong that was a good team on the prosecution. The problem was their star witness was a liar and it s hard to recover from that, they were blind-sided by that.

[rgcraig]

The glove thing still riles me up!

If he had tried to get it on, it would have fit.

[tstew]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

That is true too, but not to the point that the evidence was tainted. More like they were able to exploit the "don't trust the police" facter coupled with that Detectives racist comments he made for that book and that he lied...they used that to suggest the police planted evidence

Prax, it went beyond statements. In a case where all the blood evidence against Simpson could be measured in drops. (no pools of blood anywhere but a few drops in his room, and a few on the back gate that a cop happened to see in the dark)...the issue of being unable to account for all the blood that was taken from him is a huge problem.
Having issues with the chain of custody and the timeline immediately following the taking of the blood (the guy who transported it accounted for the unusually long time it took him to check it in by saying that he decided to take it to a place that was further away than the one that made the most sense).
There were just some things that were done that gave some credence to the defense's allegation that the evidence was suspect. I honestly feel like some of the cops wanted to make sure that he did not get away with murder and it may have backfired.

[tstew]

Either way, I don't want to hijack the topic of the thread. I believe Simpson got away with murder, and I believe that this lady did as well. Her case is even more baffling to me.

[rgcraig]

I think her story of being a battered wife (which probably was true) played on the emotions of the jury and got her off easy.