Posted on 09/19/2002 7:03:56 PM PDT by Jalapeno
Fox talk show host calls for disbarment of Westerfield lawyers
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But that's perfectionist fantasy. In the real world, did Feldman "signal"? I don't know, and I don't know that Westerfield is guilty or not either.
That's why I asked for a hypothetical answer. Is it okay to say a man is guilty of a capital crime -- or any crime -- based on intuition and feeling? Or should some mininal logic and reason be necessary as well? How many trials are like Westerfield's & OJ's -- emotional, emotional, emotional, and how many like Captain Preston's or William Penn's, where emotional force was used to bring home logic and reason out of the current common wisdom and mob feelings, and Jury's acted and were taken far more seriously?
If Feldman intended this, even in a slip-up, why wasn't there instantly a motion for a mistrial?
Oh if you're a prosecutor yes yes yes. If you're a defense attorney no no no.
Those twelve people came to the unanimous conclusion that he should die for it.
And none of your semantics and word-parsing and cute little logic-juggling tricks is going to overcome that stark, staring, LOGICAL fact.
In other words, the conviction's there; let's drop the pretense, since we all know that he did it.
Just sickening.
The O.J. verdict was based PURELY on emotion. The DEFENSE built up this big, emotion-laden case of the po' black man persecuted by the mean, mean white cops.
Every generalization I've seen you make falls completely to pieces on the most cursory examination.
Because it was after the trial was over!
Are you ever going to give up your blind defense of David Westerfield? The jury found him guilty. His attorney basically admitted he did it. Even Westerfield's mother concedes he committed the crime. While a few pro-DW freepers are still defending him, the rest of the world realizes that Westerfield is a pedophile and murderer. These pro-Westerfield posters are like some of the Japanese soldiers in WW II still hiding in their caves, fighting on long after the war was over.
An attempt to get a commitment from prosecution TO plea bargain conditional on a hypothetical concession certainly is in good faith. We have zero to demonstrate that Feldman offered anything to prosecution but a hypothetical ("IF my client shows you where the body is THEN will you not seek the death penalty"). This is not an admission of guilt or even a claim that the client could locate the body.
It appears, sadly, that the jurors who are so incensed about these alleged "lies," as well as a large segment of the public, have jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. Unfortunately for Feldman and DW, one cannot appeal on the basis of "members of the jury have now demonstrated themselves to be utterly stupid."
Are you ever going to stop beating your husband?
When? How?
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