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To: FresnoDA; spectre; Jaded; Doc Savage
So far, I think the best people on the defense team are the prosecution's own witnesses. I think it might have been a mistake to parade this bunch of lying, scamming, drunken, drug using, immoral flakes through the court before even showing one tiny morsel of actual evidence. If, as one freeper says, jurors form their opinions early, this should not have been done.

People can rail all they want about the "sleazy defense team" (that's what they always call defense attorneys), but in this trial, Feldman is simply allowing the witnesses to be themselves, in all their prevaricating wonder. And they've been all too willing to assist the defense, as lie after lie is presented, knocked down, and replaced with yet another lie. Not a one of these granola bars can be trusted to truthfully recite the grocery list, let alone facts important to the case.

And so, it comes down to this--where's the evidence? Perhaps the evidence can overcome the unholy stench of this motley crew--but lest we think we've seen the last of them, "forgedaboudit" as they say--they're going to be recalled, so the jury will get one last glance at the prosecution's star witnesses before starting to deliberate.

And what's with the police statements? Most of these witnesses have claimed that the police changed their statements--not in small ways, but large ways. Ok, I know errors happen, maybe once or twice something gets changed. But all of them?? Or is it that these fine, upstanding, trustworthy (try not to laugh too hard) witnesses regretted their statements in hindsight, and adopted the "changed statement" stance--enmasse?

Surely the jury is wondering about this too. One or two--maybe. All? Unlikely.

27 posted on 06/11/2002 7:30:19 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: MizSterious;spectre;Amore;Travis McGee;BunnySlippers;Doughtyone;Hillary's Lovely Legs;Snow Bunny...
PING...BUMP...Post 27...Best trial analysis to date....
29 posted on 06/11/2002 7:34:10 AM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: MizSterious
I was once on a criminal jury where the plaintiff had engaged in deviant sexual behavior with a child in the home. We eventually found the defendant not guilty. All 12 of us felt that there was a 50% that he was guilty (broke into the plaintiff's home). But we decided the defendant was innocent until proven guilty and we could not prove him guilty because of the plaintiff's poor credibility. The same could well be happening here.
72 posted on 06/11/2002 9:24:44 AM PDT by twigs
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To: MizSterious
So you contention is that anyone who has ever drank a beer and smoked marijuana is a "scamming, immoral flake"?
660 posted on 06/12/2002 1:07:32 AM PDT by Greg Weston
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