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What O'Reilly is doing is attempting to undermine the most basic principles of our system of justice.

Wrong. The principle of justice is to not convict the innocent. Justice is not a parlor game, a theatrical piece, or a process to keep lawyers off the street. It is about protecting society and punishing the guilty. Lawyers are officers of the court and they were not performing their legal responsibilities when they went around accusing others and trying to smear the parents of the dead girl. Their actions are totally inexcusable. In addition to which, lawyers are going way overboard in many cases, it is time to start telling them enough is enough.

When this country abandons an adversarial model of justice and adopts a cooperative one (which is when Jesus Christ will have returned) then you have a point. Otherwise the "game" is the best we can do. As long as any possibility remains however tiny that the defendant is not guilty of what was charged, the attorney can give that possibility all his guns. He can innuendo the President of the United States and go scot free.

Strange enough things have happened in capital cases before, that I am unwilling to allow the defense any less.