Posted on 01/11/2011 6:50:51 PM PST by Gondring
F. Lee Bailey is taking issue with a decision by the late lawyer Johnnie Cochran in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
Bailey, a disbarred lawyer, writes that Simpson was “in fact totally innocent of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman” and offers little-known evidence supporting his assertion. He makes the argument in a 46-page paper posted at the website of his consulting company, according to the Portland Press Herald and the New York Daily News.
Dog walker Tom Lang may have been the most important witness in the case, but his testimony was never used due to a decision by Johnnie Cochran, Bailey writes in the third portion (PDF) of his argument. Lang could have answered the question, “If Simpson didn’t do it, who did?” Bailey asserts.
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Bailey also makes these arguments, according to the New York Daily News account:
• Simpson “has no history of resorting to raging violence to solve his emotional problems.”
• Simpson’s suicide attempt was spurred by his distress over his wife’s death.
• The famous Bronco chase was actually a “high-tension escort" rather than a chase.
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(Excerpt) Read more at abajournal.com ...
And "high-tension escort"...? Sounds like someone Eliot Spitzer would know.
The article explains exactly what this star witness would have said, but it's the ABA Journal, so I'm excerpting regardless.
Simpson “has no history of resorting to raging violence to solve his emotional problems.”
Hmm I guess Drunk Lee Bailey should again look at those photos of Nicole’s face, maybe that outta reminder him what OJ does when he’s pissed
hahahahahahahaha, I was wondering the other day what a lawyer who had his license revoked, did for a living.. now I know.... they write fiction!
How the mighty have fallen. This guy hasn’t yet realized that the entire country thinks he’s a flaming idiot.
He was going to be acquitted no matter what.
Am I the only one who remembers the juror throwing a black power sign?
The news here? F. Lee Bailey is STILL ALIVE.
His career, however, has been dead for over a decade.
Someone should tell him.
Logical that they would find a way to leverage their expensive educations....
His girlfriend is Connie Francis.
I’m actually surprised he is still alive. I thought he died of alcohol poisoning..dude is known to have loved the sauce
WOW really, you serious? Damn, I guess she doesn’t have very high standards in picking men
That’s what I read and he is only 5 years I think older than her.
He's survived by his brain being preserved in alcohol.
I hope you’re not serious.
“Where...........the boys are”
So how does Flea Bailey resolve OJ crying in the background of the infamous 911 call, “My god, how can I live with myself?!?!” I don’t think he was talking about forgetting the Monday special at Denny’s.
FWIW, I have heard a very convincing argument from a forensic expert that OJ wasn’t the killer, but his son, Jason, was & the old man was just trying to take the heat for the kid.
Which goes a long way in explaining why he is a washed-up, disbarred, EX-lawyer.
I feel that both juries reached the right conclusion, even if they may have done it for the wrong reasons. Simpson was not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because the defense offered evidence of blood sample tampering (which, it was later revealed, was not an unusual thing for LAPD to do when it really needed a conviction) that the prosecution did not successfully refute. I also felt there were holes in the timeline about when/where Simpson was while he was back at Rockingham after the crime was committed.
The civil journey had the lower bar of “preponderance of the evidence” (better than 50-50 he did it) and also had the additional evidence of the Bruno Magli shoe prints at the crime scene, which was not introduced in the first trial.
I think Bailey’s “new evidence” is a red herring anyway. Just because another person might have been in the area, doesn’t exonerate Simpson at all unless you can prove Simpson was *not* in the area.
I guess he forgot about the violent incidents OJ had in FL including smacking around his current girlfriend at the time and when he got into an altercation on an off-ramp, road rage. And lest we forget why he’s in prison now. I’m not a lawyer but du’oh?
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