From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >   
   > In the previous article, bryan_styble    
   > wrote:   
   >> Most white folks--and intellectually-honest black citizens unwilling   
   >> to play the race card--figured in 1994 that Simpson deserved to get   
   >> at least 30-years-to-life.   
   >   
   > Myself, I'm torn.  It's beyond question that OJ *deserved* a lengthy   
   > prison sentence.  But Marcia Clark and Chris Darden deserved   
   > humiliation even more for their absolute, near-comical incompetence   
   > and arrogance.  Well, Clark deserved it; Darden was most likely   
   > bullied into going along with her stupidity.   
   >   
   > Was it worth letting a sick, brutal murderer walk free just to expose   
   > that incompetence?  Well, speaking seriously for a moment, obviously   
   > not.  But it was a nice side effect, at least.  And the thought of   
   > O.J. hounded financially by Fred Goldman into committing another   
   > serious crime -- for which he was actually held accountable -- does   
   > warm my heart a bit.   
   >   
   > Pity Lance Ito isn't nearly the public laughingstock he deserves to   
   > be.  He should have been removed from the bench and disbarred for   
   > falsifying his conflict of interest, not to mention his sheer   
   > incompetence at the trial.  If there's anyone to blame for this   
   > travesty besides Clark, it's that jackass.   
   >   
   > I heartily recomment Vincent Bugliosi's excellent book to anyone   
   > interested in the appalling legalities and mis-legalities of this   
   > case.   
      
   I have not read any of the books about the case...I did see Clark's   
   book in a store (did Darden write one?...like,"It Didn't Fit,I Must   
   Admit"?) but only wanted to look up her reaction to the news that her   
   star witness Fuhrman had been seeking a psychiatric discharge from   
   the police force (nothing like a self-impeaching witness!)...I did   
   not buy it.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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