OJ was not on trial, the LAPD was put on trial, because Judge Ito allowed that.
And the LAPD was convicted.
The Duke Three won't be put on trial. White hubris, white oppression, Duke superiority, etc., will be put on trial.
The OJ jury was composed of people who had not read about the trial--that is, no newspaper readers and media watchers.
This trial will probably be similar. How much do such people understand about DNA and altering time stamps on photos? They will be snowed under for days and days
with technical data, in order to leave them confused.
In the end, they will know only that the AV pointed to the three guys and said they raped her. Or, that "something happened in that house".
If this trial had a jury of the defendants' PEERS, which is the way the jury system is supposed to work, then any jury of students, college-educated persons, or persons without a grudge against rich white preppies, would find them innocent in five minutes.
But we aren't allowed to give them that kind of jury protection.
Or a change of venue.
So the system is corrupt.
And that's why this must never come to trial.
As we've remarked so often, the main part of his case is to get Mangum and Pittman/Roberts to point at the defendants and say "they called us n*gg*rs". The (lack of) the rest of the evidence won't matter and Nifong thinks, by making it all about race, a Durham jury will convict. He may be right.
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Therein lies the case! I think Nifong's plan was to focus on those slurs and repeat statements by the AV and Kim that showed they were treated as "less than human". And then he would bring out everything on their Computers - ala Scott Peterson. Every e-mail ever written with something negative towards women (they are 19) or minorities and/or sites they have visited will be used to pillory them.
That's why the Durham City Council/DPD/Nifong has to find Gottlieb and Clayton weren't involved or that the cook is lying - because those charges will give the Defense a club to beat back the only thing Nifong has - emotional racial issues.