Former Attorney Says Defense Is 'Strong'Kirk McAllister Is Protecting Key Witnesses

NBC11 ^ | May 1, 2003 | Karen Brown

[uvular]

That's what she said, then just went off interviewing Dr. Baden and T. Williams about other things! So far, she has not said where or who is reporting this. C'mon Greta-tell!

[Canadian Outrage]

You know honestly I liked Marcia Clark. She actually had a good record. She had won 22 murder convictions prior to this case. It was the race card and the fact that Garcetti allowed the case to be tried downtown. It should have been tried in Brentwood and there would have been a different Jury and a different verdict. Also, Ito became a total embarassment. He was completely enamored with himself when the camera was rolling. Johnny Cockroach made me want to throw up!

[Rusty Roberts]

lol, I'm always a day behind on these topics, just asked the same question. I'm betting he planned ahead and used tan in a can

[runningbear]

yep...that would work. Why else would a pregnant new mom suspect her husband to be flandering around with another woman? Thinking her hubbie is being so good to her..>Puke, barf!!! Sorry/rant off.... ;o)

[uvular]

Your point has me totally baffled too! They must not be able to prove his total innocence, or it seems cruel and unusual to keep an innocent person in jail.

[runningbear]

Ito, remember him so well in the Jay Leno stint, the Dancing Ito's....lol.. agree.. ;o)

[Canadian Outrage]

I was upstairs changing and there was a clip on CNBC showing Geragos asking for Snott to come to court in street clothes so that he wasn't perceived as this chained monster. The appearance in chains was not going to help him get a fair trial. However, on the street, there was a reporter following Geragos saying what about what you have stated publically on LKL and Geragos tried to evade it and the reporter went right back at him asking the same question. Geragos says " I didn't know I was on the witness list". LOL haha All those comments are comin back to bite his butt yet!!

[Devil_Anse]

I was never saying that the defense should turn over to the prosecution anything which would be detrimental to their client's case--unless they were forced by law to do so.

What I was saying was that there is ROCK-SOLID, absolute proof of Scott's innocence, and McAllister knows where it is. How do I know this? Because McAllister says so. He wouldn't lie, would he? (cough)

Such a blockbuster would surely result in a finding of no probable cause at the preliminary hearing. So I know that we will not have to wait longer than the preliminary hearing to know what this incredible evidence of Scott's innocence is.

Unless, of course, McAllister was just talking trash. I think he was.

As you have correctly pointed out, the discovery process is less elaborate and, frankly, less important, in a criminal case. And I'm certainly not saying that anybody should be compelled to turn over his work product. But I can't see how McAllister's work product could be actual evidence. So really, to me, work product is not the point here.

You speak of rebuttal. Since when does the defendant in a criminal case get rebuttal?

BTW, I remember a friend who told me that a prosecutor she was up against saved a lot of his really good stuff for rebuttal. She had learned that some of them made a habit of that, b/c she and I had worked in that very same D.A.'s office. She was later out of that office, and was defending a criminal case. The prosecution rested (with visions of a really great rebuttal in their heads.) My friend made the motions for directed verdict of acquital, etc., then she said simply: "the defense rests." Needless to say, she won the case.

[Devil_Anse]

Thank you, Velveeta! That was the one I wanted to see--the Santa hat one.

Apologies to all fair and impartial minds, but I just gotta say this: Scott is despicable.

[Devil_Anse]

Are you including failure of the prosecution to provide Brady material in that?? If so, are you serious??

[Canadian Outrage]

In this case, Experts and details are gonna have to be sorted out and lined up in advance. The Prosecutors cannot afford not to have their forensic evidence ready and backed up. They need to have their experts snagged pronto. They can make all the difference. Especially the highly respected ones like, Baden, and Lee. Apparently Juries really like Dr. Lee. He is kinda funny yet extremely brilliant.

[Devil_Anse]

ROFL!!!!

Have you ever heard that Eartha Kitt (barf) song, "Santa Baby"?

It would make a wonderful background song for that picture.

"Santa baby, I want a brand new car... Santa baby, I want a diamond ring... so hurry down the chimney to me!"

[Devil_Anse]

I am reminded of something David Schippers said in his book about his role in the impeachment. He said he was from Chicago and was thoroughly familiar with the "fix", but that he'd sort of been in awe while in Washington, and had mistakenly thought that things might be handled there in a more lofty, and less sleazy, manner.

He was berating himself for ever thinking such a thing. He compared himself to some hick who'd just fallen off a turnip truck. He said that when he and his fellow sharp lawyers would see such a naive person in the midst of Chicago dealings, they would chuckle and one of them would poke the other and say, "Get him! He thinks it's on the legit!"

I think someone is poking someone out there in Hollywood California Bigwig TV Lawyer Land, and is gazing at us, the trusting public, and is saying, "Get them! They think it's on the legit!"

[Rusty Roberts]

I have a feeling MG will be the front person, someone else will be the true "leg work" of the case. MG's firm will bear the brunt of this case, and I think he comes across as a well spoken, quick thinking lawyer. I do not think death penalty, special circumstance cases are his forte.

We will see a tag team, a bench of lawyers surrounding Scotty from now on, as well as defense experts. Mark will be the spokesperson, he will be doing the spin.

[Devil_Anse]

I honestly don't think any case is about winning or losing, or good or bad, to Geragos. I think all cases--and just about everything else, too--are about money. Just money, that's all.

[Canadian Outrage]

Are they all gonna work gratis??? Peterson's are NOT wealthy. They are not poor but certainly not in the millions league.

[Devil_Anse]

Yes, but that applies to all lawyers, and to all types of cases. With few exceptions, the lawyer will decide whether or not to go to trial by assessing whether they can win at trial. So anyone can likewise keep their "win" percentage high if they are good at making these educated guesses.

So maybe we should be congratulating the screener of cases from Nancy Grace's former office. The only point I was making was, 100% of the cases she tried, she won. I think it's a cheap shot to denigrate a performance record like that. Someone was doing something right.

She was a prosecutor in Georgia, Atlanta, I think, and is now a TV commentator.

I think she probably knows almost as much as you do about prosecuting criminal cases. And it is criminal law that we're talking about here, you know.

[runningbear]

oh yeah, MG is a PR person..Watching the reply of Chris Matthews... Peterson discussion..

[Devil_Anse]

When one starts counting all a lawyer's cases, including the settled cases as well as the tried cases, it comes down to how many satisfied vs. unsatisfied clients the lawyer has. Or, in the case of a D.A., how many times they have provided what the public deserves from them

[Velveeta]

http://www.fresnobee.com/special/peterson/Stories/story/6586416p-7526265c.html

Scott's father said his son turned over a time-stamped receipt from an automated ticket dispenser at the Berkeley Marina, claiming that the receipt showed that he was there when he said he was on Christmas Eve. Police verified the receipt was authentic, BUT RIDENOUR ADDED: "WE NEVER SAID IT WAS A RECEIPT THAT CAME FROM HIM"
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Bold emphasis is mine. Was the fishy story NOT Scott's original alibi? I wonder if Scott originally tried the I- was-at-work-all-day-alibi? Maybe he threw the receipt away in a dumpster and then changed his story to ...oh yeah, I also went fishin in the boat my wife didn't know I had?