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Did Feldman really do a good job? I have to wonder..he planted all these ideas, but nothing to back it up. For example, the jurors were left scratching their heads wrt:the swinging issue..(so they say)

Absolutely fricking beautiful job Feldman did. His entire job was to confuse. And leave jurors with reasonable doubt on issues that had nothing to do with the elements of the crime. It's the best response to DNA-type evidence: to put on a defense that gets the jury to stray from scientific modalities of thought.

Look, I think Westerfield's guilty, don't get me wrong. But Feldman did a fine, fine job as a defense attorney. My prosecutor friends agree. Very solid. Best he could do was try to get the jurors to scratch their heads harder.
<BR. Ever seen the South Park episode with the Chubakee defense? That's the line he was running. Know the bit? It's a take-off on Johnny Chochran. They have this cartoon version of him stand before the jury and get a clearly guilty guy off because of a little story about how a Chubakee could end up a on different planet, one which had nothing to do with him, it all made no sense. And on and on the defense went, all about this alien on an even more alien planet. What, asks Chochran, does this have to do with the crime! NOthing!! it makes NO SENSE! None of this makes ANY SENSE!!! And so, ladies and gentlemen, you must acquit.