Posted on 07/23/2004 3:32:50 PM PDT by sinkspur
"The jury pool in Colorado is going to be....ummmm...quite different."
Well then I hope Kobe's defense atty is reading your post and considers you for employment as a jury pool advisor.
Well I thought it was in bad taste myself.
Interesting you mention those two cases, because both of them (the trials, I mean) were influenced by political considerations. In the case of Rodney King, the change of venue to Simi made the difference. If the case had been tried in the proper courthouse (Van Nuys, probably) the jury would have been more reflective of the community and the cops would most likely have been convicted. In the case of OJ, the DA bent the other way. The trial should have been held in Santa Monica, which is much less tolerant of people slicing up pretty blondes, there being more pretty blondes in Santa Monica than downtown. Witness the second trials in both cases. Downtown federal trial of King beating cops found them guilty. Santa Monica civil trial of OJ found him guilty. Changes of venue were made for political reasons. (The other reason, apparently, that Simi was chosen for the Rodney King trial was that it was the best commute for the judge).
Well you're right... and in both cases the DA decided to charge in the case...
Oh and one more thing... Judges approve venue changes, not DAs.
Wow. I'm just speechless at such naivete.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3775
Partisan District Attorney Pursues Tom DeLay
by John Gizzi
Posted May 3, 2004
Is a partisan Democratic prosecutor in Texas going to hit House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.) with a politically motivated indictment for allegedly violating state election law? If so, DeLay could be forced to resign his House leadership position under House rules.
For the past six months, Travis County (Austin) District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who secured an indictment of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Tex.) in 1993 on a charge that was eventually dropped, has been probing for violations of election law by DeLay and Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee DeLay launched to elect a Republican state legislature in 2002.
Not every public servant makes judgments based upon political judgments. I work as a state gov't employee in AZ and I don't.
That's not the point. I'm not saying that all DA's always make all decisions based on political motivations. I am saying that it happens, while you said "I do believe DA's everywhere are beyond such considerations."
I don't generalize. I'm sorry that you feel you must about all public officials in whatever capacity they serve.
Okay, then OJ wasn't technically a venue change. Some details:
"It is standard practice in Los Angeles County to file a case in the superior court of the judicial district in which the crime occurred. This was Santa Monica in the case of the Brown and Goldman murders. Instead, Garcetti made the decision to file the case downtown. He claimed this was because Special Trials were located there and that Santa Monica didn't have the physical facilities to manage a trial of the kind envisaged. He also wanted it downtown to get the indictment of Simpson through a grand jury instead of the more commonly used preliminary hearing method, by which 99.9% of criminal cases in Los Angeles go to superior court.
The grand jury route would have been of strategic advantage to the prosecutor because these proceedings are secret and the defense does not participate, allowing the prosecution to secure its indictment without revealing the basis of its case to the defense prior to the trial. There is only one grand jury in Los Angeles and it is only convened downtown. However, the defense succeeded in getting the grand jury dismissed on the grounds that it had been tainted by the adverse publicity surrounding the case.
Had the case been held in Santa Monica, it is almost certain that the composition of the jury would have finished up being mainly white people. Had a jury of this ethnic mix found Simpson guilty, there was always the possibility of a major backlash from non-whites. The last major race riot in Los Angeles occurred when a largely white jury acquitted white policemen accused in the infamous Rodney King case. A similar verdict in reverse might well have triggered off another race riot.
Garcetti is also claimed to have said that a guilty verdict by a downtown jury would have had more credibility with the black community. It's possible also that he thought the case was so airtight that his prosecutors couldn't fail wherever they tried it. He could have been more wrong, but it's hard to see how"
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/simpson/man_8.html?sect=7
"I do believe DA's everywhere are beyond such considerations."
Do you not see the dichotomy there?
See, now I know you're not really reading my posts. Heres what I said, " I'm not saying that all DA's always make all decisions based on political motivations. I am saying that it happens..."
Not the two I've worked for. All I can go by is my own experience.
I couldn't spell promiscious..tramp is a lot easier.
seems as though both might be on trial...only different charges.
If he forced himself on her, take him out and hang him!! If she made the whole thing up to cover her tracks, take her out and hang her.
Somebody needs to be hung (and i heard it was kolbe)
The problem is, Kobe is not going to admit to any degree of sexual assault, as Pam Mackey sees the way the wind is blowing.
The only thing they'll settle for is for the case to be dismissed, by the DA.
They've basically split the baby here, ordering Ruckreigle to release SOME of the documents.
That means whatever he releases will not be the most controversial information, but it may give some indication of what the defense has access to.
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