[Labyrinthos]

As I heard Rush say some time back, "Our legal system is designed under the precept that it is better to let an occassional guilty person off, than it is to convict an innocent man."

I hope you don't think that Rush coined the phrase on his own. BTW, the prosecution in the O.J. case did an absolutely horrible job. We all know O.J. wacked them, but the prosecution botched the case from the moment the first police officer showed up at the crime scene. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt -- hardly.

[trebb]

Rush didn't claim to have coined the phrase - just the first time I heard it.

I agree that the prosecution hosed it with O.J., but I think the jury got too caught up in Cochran's antics and acquitted him even though the evidence was there - the prosecution just made it easy for them with it's own lapses in competence and judgement.