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To: OneWingedShark

Robert Bork, who took a leave of absence from law school to serve as a tank commander in Korea, during the Korean War, said that if he was innocent he would prefer a court-martial, if he was guilty, he would prefer a jury.

Think O. J.


135 posted on 01/21/2013 10:06:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Please, don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Robert Bork, who took a leave of absence from law school to serve as a tank commander in Korea, during the Korean War, said that if he was innocent he would prefer a court-martial, if he was guilty, he would prefer a jury.

Maybe he said that -- but I can think of one whole class of laws that are considered legitimate and lend themselves to assuming guilt: drug laws. It is thanks to them that the police can assume any large amount of cash on your person is/was meant for a drug transaction, take it, and make you have to prove that it was not.

Think O. J.

O.J. was acquitted because the prosecution sucked. Also, one Freeper mentioned that it looked like OJ was taking the fall for his son, based on the

143 posted on 01/21/2013 1:07:20 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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