To: Yaelle
Marcia and her boyfriend chose the right solution. Of course that jury has a reputation that will forever make them the benchmark for the DUH brigade. But I'll always feel like Marcia Clark did a lousy job with that case.
First, it was the National Enquirer that found those Bruno Magli shoes on OJ in a picture they'd found in the files. OJ, if you recall, said he would never wear those "ugly-assed" shoes. Couldn't Marcia have looked through the old football clips and found him wearing those shoes instead of, say, a damn newspaper? Not that she wasn't the prosecutor or anything.
Also, a woman sold her story to the tabloids but she COULD have testified in court too, silly me. This woman's story was that she had stopped at an intersection and OJ jumped out of his car and carried on because she was blocking him from his escape from the scene of the crime. The time she said it happened and OJ's physical state of frenzy all suited the time of the crime. But Marcia wouldn't take any witnesses who had sold their story to tabloids.
Why? There is no law at all preventing witnesses from selling their story to the tabloids although I understand that prosecutors try to discourage this. But to totally make up some new prosecutorial rule that tabloid witnesses will not be allowed....stupid, stupid, stupid.
Marcia Clark will go down in ignomy for some of her dumbass decisions.
240 posted on
09/16/2007 12:58:04 PM PDT by
Fishtalk
(http://patfish.blogspot.com)
To: Fishtalk
But I'll always feel like Marcia Clark did a lousy job with that case. I'll always feel that Marcia, and the rest of the prosecution team, deliberately threw the case
The Los Angeles Establishment did NOT want another LA riot, no matter what the cost.
248 posted on
09/16/2007 1:05:08 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: Fishtalk
Off the subject but Marcia Clark was one of the guests on Oprah the other day along with the Goldmans and Chris Darden. All was very serious. When it came time to talk to Marcia, Oprah gushes something like, “And we have Marcia Clark, who is barely recognizable in her new hair color...” Marcia grinned and turned her head. Har har har. Why are people so sickening - why make that comment? I hate to say it but what a womany thing to do.
To: Fishtalk
When the O.J. trial was on court TV, I watched quite a lot of it and I think Marcia Clark was a really bad prosecutor- Darden wasn’t so good either. They lost the case on strategy, as well as Marcia putting the jury to sleep with her course on DNA. I took a Biology class a few years ago and the instructor I had was so good at explaining the basic concept of DNA it is a shame LA couldn’t have found someone like her to present DNA to the jury. I was actually very interested in DNA at the time and I couldn’t follow Marcia without falling asleep. Mark Fuhrman sure didn’t help the case with his bagage but a good prosecutor would have made a world of difference.
462 posted on
09/16/2007 4:44:34 PM PDT by
Tammy8
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