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Originally Posted by PurrrsianPussyKat
You need to be able to convict without reasonable doubt.
The fact that the defense attorney is going to hammer on their being no conclusive dna testing is going to get them off. Don't forget, jurys are made up of the same people that are not reading your quotes in this thread and are forming opinions. They sit on the jury and think about how they can't wait to go home, not the facts.
Look at the oj trial. They find some blood soaked leather glove that shriveled up like an old mans penis and said, This can't be his as it's to small. Well, duh. But if you throw that "reasonable doubt" at the jury enough times as well as the shunken glove, they come back with a not guilty verdict.
These boys are all "well off, upstanding citizens" and they are being accused by whom? No one a jury is going to believe.
My prediction : Not guilty
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I agree with a lot of that.
I think you over simplified the OJ trial though. The glove got a lot of attention in the press but infact it was the least of many factors that swayed the jury. The person who found the glove(Mark Furhman) was more of a problem then the glove shrinking. Nobody believed he was lucky enough to find a glove at the murder scene and then after being relieved from the case he went to OJ's house and found the second glove.
They saw him as a liar when he testified that OJ was not a suspect but yet he found probable cause to enter OJ's property without a warrant or calling in other officers for back up. Then the "N" bomb was dropped and he lied on the stand.
Fact, it was OJ's limo driver's testimony the got the accquital. The first jury vote had one hold out and after the jury requested a re-read of the limo driver's testimony they all voted not guilty.
The limo driver had phone records of when he called OJ and when they left and so forth and he was adamant about his account of the time line.
He seemed to believe that he had the evidence to convict OJ, however he didn't know the time-line as proposed by the prosecution.
The jury decided that if the limo driver was correct as he stated then OJ did not have enough time to do the murder.
The limo driver refused to accept that the time on his phone could have been wrong.
The news spun all the shit about the glove and Mark Furhman and racism and that made those things seem more important then they were.