In the spirit of the Holiday season perhaps people will read the truth and understand why the O.J. Jury had no other choice than to render the verdict they did. I been waiting to write this one for a long time in the hopes that we get enough distance from pure emotions, racial bias (on both sides) and talk about something that is very important to the subject of our freedom. And that is a fair trial. Guilty within the framework of what our law is supposed to mean.

Had I of sat on the O.J. Jury I would have voted as they did. Not that I think he's innocent but because there was a greater issue there. Like most, I would agree that "the rich and famous" get off more often that you or I would.  Remeber these words. I think I can pull it together for the unbiased, intelligent person. Here's why I would have been forced to vote not guilty.

POLICE MISCONDUCT:

We All Know that the law requires a search warrant to come onto the property beyond a locked gate unless there is a "hot pursuit" by the police of a supect. The LAPD went over that fence (Mark Furman was the one who scaled the wall) and opened the gate.  Later they claimed they were "worried that someone who had killed Nicole and Ron was after O.J." That violated the hot pursuit exception and is absurd without exception.

A Detective carried the blood vial of O.J.'s blood around in his pocket for half a day in warm tempatures. A 28 year detective knows better than this. His excuse? I forgot. Not only could that sample been contiminated, they laid off a certain amount of minute missing blood to "evaporation"  despite their claim that the vial had been air sealed so there could not be any possible contamination. You can't have it both ways. If it couldn't have been contaminated due to being air sealed it wouldn't evaporate.

After the blood vial was carried around and after six previous blood tests on the O.J. Bronco there was a "minute" blood residue found in the Bronco alongside the console.

After the blood vial was carried around and after three previous tests for blood on the back gate at Nicole's condo complex, there was a single "minute" six month old blood drop found on the back gate despite having been exposed to weather for this six months period of time.

Two of the most amazing coincidences I have ever heard of in my 60 years of being a crime buff.

The Glove was found between the property fence and the guest complex behind the O.J. house. This narrow strip was perhaps 3 feet wide (or less) and covered with leaves. It was found by, you guessed it,  Mark Furman.  He called other cops to verify the glove and photos were taken before it was retrieved. None of the leaves were broken or disturbed around the glove or in any part of the walkway including at either end. Amazingly the jurors were asked to believe that O.J. had tossed the glove in there for some reason and never was in the walkway himself. Just simply beyond belief. I find it far easier to believe Furman had tossed it in there himself.  And of course Furman had been at Nicole's prior to going to O.J.'s to figure so heavily in this case. This would be the same Mark Furman who would later be discovered to be the detective who had tried to date Nicole and who had used the word Nigger over 300 times while tape recording with a writer as a crime expert.

SUMMARY:

NOTHING AT ALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN THE TRIAL CONCERNING BLOOD IN THE BRONCO OR ON THE GATE OR THE GLOVE OR ANY OTHER SUPPOSED EVIDENCE IN OR ON THE OJ PROPERTY BECAUSE  RULES OF LAW WERE BROKEN BY THE DETECTIVES INVOLVED. THAT'S JUST PURE AND SIMPLE FACT. NOW BEFORE YOU SAY YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN BECAUSE O.J. WAS GUILTY ANYHOW  JUST HOLD YOUR WATER AND LET'S GO ON FOR PART TWO.

 THE DNA AND BLOOD TESTIMONY:

Let's move quickly to the heart of the matter in deciding whether the jury made the only call they could honestly make here or not.  It's not a matter of what was testified to at that time except to say was the DNA FBI testimony and DR Lee the blood expert credible. As I sat and watched that trial I thought back to all the garbage, all the lies, all the framing of people that the FBI had been involved with clear back to their participation of getting Bruno Richard Hauptman convicted and executed in the Lindberg Baby Kidnapping trial and the same with Julias and Ethel Rosenberg in the spying for the Soviets case and executed and in both cases today virtually every crime expert in the country says they were framed by the FBI. The FBI in my mind is about as credible as the guy on the street telling you if you will give him five dollars so he can get some gas and milk for his baby that he will mail you the money back next week. I'm sure many on that jury felt as I do about the FBI's credibility and even if not certainly one would. And Dr Lee the celebrated blood specialist of over 2,000 trials in which he never once had testified for the defense, sat there explaining blood splatters and types of cuts and angles and this and that and the thought crossed my mind that even if he were to be trusted to be more than just a "celebrity witness", what the hell was he saying that even in the slightest proved that OJ had anything to do with what he was talking about? It was at best, testimony to make the crime gruesome in the juries mind and nothing more.

SUMMARY:  Less than a year after the OJ verdict  it came out that  21 cases of DNA FBI testimony on DNA testing done at the same FBI lab during the same time frame that OJ's blood was tested, that there had been misconduct in terms of contaminated blood in 11 of those cases, in an anstounding 7 of those cases the blood was simply went missing between the time the FBI made their report and a defense asked for independent testing, and if you can believe this, in 3 other cases they had to admit they had mislabeled the blood of a defendant with some other blood not related to the case and it was done on purpose by a technician who admitted to doing so because "too many people get off and the police in his opinion, did not make mistakes so he had switched blood samples to match the type blood needed and falsified results to ensure guilty people didn't get off." Off course the FBI claimed that they had had no such problems with the OJ case and stood by their testimony in this case. Are you kidding me? If this doesn't raise at the very least reasonable doubt concerning every single word uttered by the FBI DNA testimony, I don't know what would.

As For Dr. Lee, he was trapped within three years after the OJ trial when he testified as an expert witness to some so called "evidence" that he had "appraised" and the prosecution had given him by mistake the blood evidence of an entirely differnent case and he sat right there and talked for 3 hours in a death penalty case making angles of cuts fit the height of the defendant and volumes about something he knew absolutely nothing about. He, within days, announced his retirement and is no longer testifying as a blood expert.

THE LOCATION OF THE TRIAL:

 The murders took place in the affluent West side of Los Angeles. O.J. lived in the same area. Why would they move the trial to  Central L.A. where they would get lesser educated, certainly more minorites inclined to support O.J. and people with a lessor understanding of how the law works. The answer lies in the latter. They knew, had to know, that those on a jury on the west side would know about the basic premise of law concerning things we have already discussed and others to come. They went with the central district for one reason. Hoping to pull the wool over the eyes of people under a microscope as the OJ Jury was to be and deceive them with the testimony of absolutely nothing relevant to the case at hand. They were racist from the jump in assuming the minorites would be too stupid to figure out they had no case without using tainted, and irrelevant but inflamatory  evidence.

THE PROSECUTORS:

The only capitol crimes (murder) high profile prosecutor available at that time was a woman working out of the South Bay area and was widely considered to be a person whose political ambitions and unwillingness to prosecture weak cases was about as large as they could be. What District Attorney Ira Reiner came up with was Marsha Clark who was totally incompetent and who spent hours and day and weeks upon hours, days and weeks whining,complaining and making hereself and the prosecutors looking even more inept than they even were if that was possible.  Her trying to "bond" with the jury as a single working mother was never ending as was her attempting to make the case as much about her and Chris Darden be "people like the jury".

Chris Darden was yet another example of the District Attorney's attempt at playing their own race card. Bearded, moody, prone to wild gestures of contempt for O.J. and his defense, this was a rather transparant attempt to convince the urban jury that he, not O.J. was the "real black man" involved and because he was on the side of the prosecution they should empathize with him more so than O.J.. Something along the lines of what we now know as the card "I'm blacker that you are". All of which said to me once again, they got no real case.

DELIBERATING AS A JUROR: 

Let me cut to the chase here. I don't know why the jury came back with a not guilty verdict. Whether I think O.J. did or not (and I do) is totally irrelevant to the verdict in this particular case. In my view every single day in America a poor person is railraoded by prosecutors and cops with made up evidence, inflamatory evidence irrelevant to guilt or innocent (how brutally a murder is has nothing at all to do with guilt or innocence of a particular person). In the O.J. Case I felt the FBI to be suspect at best with their DNA testing. I felt Dr.Lee was "performing" every single minute he was testifying and that not one single bit of his testimony was relevant to whether O.J. had done it or not.

I felt the police put the blood drop on the gate and in the bronco after the fact based on direct testimony. Based on testimony concerning Mark Furman's going over the wall, his finding the glove by himself while other detectives "searched elsewhere without a warrant" and his later discovery as to having a personal dislike for O.J. and blacks in general left at least reasonable doubt as to whether Furman himself had put the glove there.

I felt that from the start to throughout the trial that the police, labs and the prosecution had at least in some cases fabricated evidence, and may well have done quite a lot of it.

What this said to me and says to me today is that we all deserve a fair trial. Daily as I just stated poor people are convicted on fabricated evidence. The rich get a fair trial and the poor don't.  That's the bottom line. But I think in this case and in others since the "Justice system" has clearly shown that they are willing to do this sort of thing regardless of how much money or competent defense attorneys the defendant may have. We all deserve the same justice system but we all don't deserve the same justice system as the poor gets and when you will turn a blind eye to the amount of criminal actions by this system when someone like O.J. who has the very best defenders possible and if you will STILL allow them to get away with it then what you are doing is saying to those police and prosecutors "there is simply no end to what you can get away with in prosecuting someone". And at that point ALL of our rights to even a semblence of a fair trial has ended. You might as well be being tried before an Islamic court. Or in the USSR. Or in a court of Hitler.

As much as I personally think O.J. did it I would have voted not guilty had I been on that jury because in a democracy with a bill of rights such as we are supposed to have, you cannot allow the greater crime of police and justice system people to not be held accountable to the rule of law concerning us all. And anyone accused is one of us ALL.  Concerning all the shoddy police work, all the violations of OUR civil rights, All the lies, all the things that came to light behind the trial, they got it right regardless of why they think they came back with not guilty. Take out what should not have been there and "I know he did it" is virtually all that was left to consider. And that's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

I was raised to believe that "it is better to allow 100 guilty people to go free than to imprison a single innocent man". I still believe that in a free society that in order for us to continue to be free that this statement must continue to be true. I would have liked to see Simpson be forced to pay for his crime, but unfortunately a greater issue  was on trial here.  OUR FREEDOM FROM A POLICE STATE.

"Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in all the wrong faces"

Dear Allen,

It's me your old buddy Davy Crockett. Come on down to the Alamo we got a street fight here. You might even be able to take them out considering all the warring you done in Philly. But ya know Allen, this may be the first time I ever saw a warrior carry himself out on his own shield.

I couldn't stand you for years Allen.  i wanted so bad to play pro ball...any ball..that I damn near killed myself and did get declared legally dead in Barcelona running with the bulls in 74 (well ok it was trotting with a midget and two basset hounds in Bakersfield but I did get a T-shirt)  I'm your size Allen. And over the years the hate turned to dislike to grudging admiration for you being so small and getting in there but then it started to hit me Allen. You blew it buddy.

You have talent in places most people don't even have toilet paper. But I started noticing things like "AI is the toughest little shit in the world...yep dislocated shoulder last night... out twelve years...NOPE BACK AND RUN 55 TONIGHT....and I mean everytime we turned around it was some overblown hype about AI. People don't lose an arm and their dick and play the next night and why would a team go to that great lengths to even bother to try and promote someone that way. That knawing feeling came back Allen. He won't practice, he's won't stop doing things to embarass himself and his team. Nobody wants to play with him.

I am within my own little mini version of the clump of dirt on a elephants back..a bit of an Allen iverson myself. I couldn't stay out of trouble if trouble shot gunned me and left town on a Concorde while I was unconcious so I know you Allen. Difference is man you have TALENT.

And you piss me off. Remember last last season when you went ape shit and actually played point guard like they drafted you to do all those years ago? You averaged like 17 assists over ten games or something and 25 points and shot like 54%??? I was here at the Alamo trying to tell Jim Bowie I had to go make a Pizza delivery when you did that. And I remember getting this warm feeling and think to myself  "he's 30...his mind has FINALLY caught up to his talent holy shit we got something here FINALLY.

Now here we are. Both of us seeing the hordes of gengis khan coming right down our faces. Once again the difference is Allen, I'm not at the Alamo. I'm just pretending to be. YOU GOT YOUR HALL OF FAME, YOUR LEGACY AND YOUR GOD DAMN "THUG EGO" AT STAKE HERE SON.

You can go out as a gunner who wouldn't team ball, who was selfish, who was damn near ghetto SSI retarded with nothing but god given talent between him and SSI, who was a cancer greater than his talent.  Are you bright enough to understand this Allen?  I hope to God so.

Carmelo Anthony is the man on that team suspension or not. JR is suprisingly coming into his own. You got something right there you never had in Philly. AND you got Camby still not in the ER (Knock on wood) and you got some guys. Matter of fact you got EASILY THREE times anything you ever played with in the NBA. The  choice for you Allen is the same the choice it's been since the day you were drafted to be the Sixers point guard. If you go troublemaking and want to play SG again you are dumber than a frigging :LLama trying to hump  a sweater. Your body is starting to break down. You got maybe 4 decent years left. Carnelo keeps them honest on the low side right and left sometimes. He's drive or go up. JR is high right and they know that sucker is shooting.  You got high left. They can't sag on you, you got tons more daylight in the trees than you ever had,  they drop you got left and right kick out and you got camby or someone ALWAY sliding down that right side baseline     for the tear drop alley oop. Be the point guard god made you to be Allen. You can get 15 assists a night and shoot 20 times and still score what you did cause you got quality shots.

They, the Nuggets will not fuck with your bullshit Allen.  They don't have to. They got youth and they didn't give up that much for you. That may be what your shell shocked about.  Nobody was selling Candy to raise money to get you Allen. You're damn lucky to ended up where you did.

This the best and last shot you will ever get Allen. Blow it and they're saving a spot for you on the wall at the Alamo. I traded a guy my coon skin cap for a shetland pony and told everyone I had to see a man about a dog. You can be a fool and go down in history as  someone who was a big gun but never got it done. Or you  have everyone thinking you're dead and talking about what might have been while you're actually at Rosarita beach with a honey telling her you're Billy the kid. Think about. it

 LOL late breaking news: I just can't wipe the grin off myface...one his way out the door Allen took one last shot  (until he gets the phone working the plane of course) at  Philly and said he didn't  ask for a trade/.  All he asked them to do was get their head out of their ass and stop playing out of control. HAHAHAHAHAHAA  I'd good money  for a copy of that conversation between AI and the owner.  Damn  Allen.  Could't let your skirttails get out of town before you had to do  one last hoodrat drive by diss right? LOLOLOLOL

There are writers on this blog that I just sit in awe of.  I think by now they know who they are. There are people I have serious issues with about their "politics" if you will.  There are people that I just flat out don't like and am reasonably sure I never will within the frame work of this blog. 

But there are four guys that back when I first started blogging who I had run in with that I owe an apology to. And the reason I owe them an apology is because the run in was my fault.

I'm not going to sit here and give my version of what happened.  If they read this and want to respond with a public airing of what they think I did that's their right and I won't dispute their versions (unless of course they claim it had anything to do with sheep,burros or LLamas in which case I will categoricaly deny it. I wasn't even the one who put the calf in the tutu.)

But what I will tell you is this. After the run in we had they didn't spend their time harboring a public grudge. They let it die and gave me some breathing space and and that's not something that most of us get from those in our lives today with whom we have conflict.  It almost seems like in these times that every conflict is a lifetime war of words. But not with these men. They were bigger men than I and I can't find anyway to not see myself in the mirror on this one.

Miracle, Flying Pig, Shooter B, SoCalFan.......I seriously do aplogize for my behaviour towards you that time and would like to have a chance to regain your respect. (but you're not getting my bud light.)

Ever have one of those days you planned to sleep in,  get up and laze around giving your best effort to do absolutely nothing?

And someone come barging in who regularly barges in and you pretty much think " yeah whatever, don't talk to me....I'm in offical don't care status"?

The of course a Vampire drops in (in my case named Buffy) and you pretty much know that this not going to be a cruise control sort of a day since the biggest irritant person you know is homesteading in your home before noon?

You get yourself a big ole pitcher of ice tea and you slide out to the best patio recliner you got and turn on the little TV hoping they won't notice you're gone? And then your son and half a million of his friends show up and you can't say a damn thing since you spent the last two years ragging on him for.....never showing up.  Next thing you know there's ping pong tournament going on (like a 10 person double elimination tournament is needed?")

They're inside your house, theres people outside your house and you could pass a polygraph with no problem swearing  you didn't invite a single one of them?

Then out of nowhere it happens. Someone starts it and someone  gets all wound up and it's like a frigging contagious disease.. There are gainfully employed people? College degree people? White people? Black People? Latino people? And Arab for God's sake.......I'm sure you know more. But they spent a good hour on it.....to wit.....

Spanking The Monkey..... Choking the Chicken......  .Whipping The Wire....Pounding the Pud

Too Broke To Pay....Stroodling The Noodle....Loping The Mule....Training the Toad

Petting the Pole......Watering The Sheets....Dating Martha Thumb and the Finger sisters,

Flooding The Basement.....Pole Vaulting.....Milking The Snake.......Practicing......Going Long

Taking Him Down For The Count.....Puttin The Twins On Overtime.....Walking The Weasel

Hand to Hand To Combat.....Making Sure Everything Is in Working Order....Lubeing the Joint

Tillin The Tail .......... Beatin The Meat........Workin' The Soul Pole..........Waxin' The Periscope

Waltzing The Weiner ........Playin The Skin Flute.........Makin' Gravy........Beatin the Bush

And finally "Give All the Wives A Night Off" (Frigging Arabs. Just another reason they need to go home)

And there were dozens more. I must getting old. In my day guys didn't even admit they did it and women sure as hell didn't stand around contributing to the laughter.

And then you discover your 5 year old granddaughter who is almost certainly going to turn out  to be an extortioniost, has been sitting behind a chair getting low next to a potted plant and taping everyone. Cost me 5.00 to get that tape before her mother did.

One of those days

A LOOK AT THE NBA AFTER ROUGHLY 25% OF THE REGULAR SEASON:

THE WILD WILD WEST

Let's start with my Lakers. They are better than most thought including myself. And considering that they just got 2 out of 3  in their first tour thru Texas and the one they lost was without Lamar, not too shabby. However at the same time this is a killer with Odom going down now. I got hopes they can hold the fort till he gets back but I'm a Laker fan so who knows? Damn what a lousy break.

The suprise of the NBA has to be the Utah Jazz. What else is there to say about them? Boozer is playing like an all star and assuming they stay healthy I don't see any reason they can't keep this up. (Althought 5-5 in the last 10 isn't exactly what I expected. You?)

The Suns have jelled.Amare is back with a vengance and they got role player stacked on role players. 12 in  a row as I write this. I picked them to win the West IF Amare was OK and I don;t see any reason here to be waffling yet at this point.

The Mavs are on their own roll but I have problems believing with the Mavs because they got so many guys who have missed so much in the past with injuries. It's Dirk's team and we'll see how Avery keeps them patched together around them.

The Spurs are the Spurs. Anyone who counts them in or out at this point would be a fool in my estimation. So much can be said for their bench solidfying behind the big 3 but I got my doubts over 82 games. Everything depends on the big 3 staying healthy. But who knows? The Spurs are traditionally the best 2nd half team in the NBA since Duncan came around.

I predicted the Clippers would fall apart. That Cassel's back and age would catch up to him, that Tim Thomas is a cancer, that Mobley and Maggs would be their usual errratic selves. On top of that Kamen is looking very VERY ordinary. Clippers may turn this around but I would be suprised if they do. Last 20 games of last season they tried to choke their way out of the playoffs and this ain't even that team.  I'm betting against them.

Rockets are screwed.Yao has come into his own but T-Mac is done for looks like. Likely be in and out all season with that back and this early in the season with Spasms again? Damn shame really.

Kings are better than I thought they would be. A playoff berth depends on Miller holding up. Out once already, without him they don't go anywhere beyond the first round if they can make that.

What to think about Denver? I have no clue about Denver.  I think George Karl is a nut case. I think Camby will get hurt again at the worst possible time. Is J.R. for real? Seems he might be but what are they going to do for bigs down the stretch and into the playoffs? I just don't know what to think here.

Everyone else? Forget it. Enjoy the stars here and there, enjoy the big games here and there but none of them are going to do anything this season.

THE EMBARASSING EAST:

This will be brief. A true embarassment. The Pistons just based on experience and their top 4 likelyl win the east unless somehow Riley can bring Shaq back under 400 lbs in time to both make the playoffs and then do something with it. And who knows? Maybe he'll snag AI and somehow make it work.  Seems like a pipe dream to me at this point but I been wrong before.

The Cavs simply don't have the horses or the balls. Whatever Lebron does it won't be enough. They aren't going to the finals.

The Magic are a nice young team. Keyword being young. They don't have enough experience to go to the finals.

Having said all that, I will add this. After their usual dismal start, the Bulls may just make fools of everyone except the die hard Bulls fans.

Everyone else is a joke. Shame Shame Shame