On Wed, 23 May 2007 13:51:51 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <
[email protected]>
wrote:
>> This is the FACT: Anyone who NEEDS a lawyer like Johnny Cochran to
>> "get them off" is guilty as sin, and if they get off, they'll be
>> respected among people with brains just about as much as O.J. is now.
>
>Were that it were so. The fun part of medical lab testing is the number*
>of innocent people getting cleared these days by DNA evidence, in some
>cases springing them from jail.
>
>I'm pretty sure all those people NEEDED a lawyer like Johnny Cochran,
>they just didn't have one.
>
>Or the Duke lacrosse players, for a more recent example of a group of
>people whose lives were nearly ruined by overzealous prosecution.
Apples and oranges.
The truly innocent accused doesn't need a lawyer like Johnny Cochran
to "get them off." All they need is a minimally competent one to
ascertain the facts, and sadly that is not always the case.
Johnny Cochran was an expensive expert trial lawyer, whom the general
public, correctly or incorrectly, trust and respect about as much as
used car or insurance salesmen - or politicians.
The Duke lacrosse players ran into a different problem: the truly
rare case of an abuse of power by a despicable rogue prosecutor
running for political office. Who, by the way, is the "real killer"
and will likely lose his law license and go bankrupt from the civil
suits the wrongly accused will bring against him. And rightly so.
So we have two choices with Floyd:
Is he just another common example of a guilty rich scum lawyering up
to "get off"?
Is he another rare example of a victim of a nefarious conspiracy out
to "get him."?
I suggest from a rational, objective point of view that the odds
overwhelmingly are in favor of the first.
But hope and credulity spring eternal, and the RBR partisans slant
overwhelmingly toward the second.
I say you all are in la la land.
Even if he gets the deserved 2 year suspension, no partisan will ever
be convinced.