Legal Bill

You can't make this stuff up. OJ has a publisher for a book about how he would have killed his wife IF he did it. I haven't read it, and won't. The very idea of it is repulsive. My question to you: If a member of his wife's or Ron Goldman's family killed OJ, and you were on the jury, could you convict? I don't think I could.

mikegarrison

I could convict, if I was sure the person was guilty.

The law must be extra-vigilant about prosecuting extremely attractive (to the individual) behaviors that are socially damaging. Winking, nodding, and saying "I would have done the same" is how you get a culture of revenge killings.

Legal Bill

I don't know Mike. Say the defense was "Yes, I did it. The law couldn't convict him, the courts couldn't collect the judgment from him, and now he is making money publishing a book about how he killed my sister/daughter/son. I just snapped!" He or she would need to be in a jurisdiction friendly to a temporary insanity defense. Many jurisdictions would not recognize the insanity defense unless the person claims he or she didn't even know what they were doing.

So say some aggravated temporary insanity defense was available. Would you still convict if you could aquit the family member within the rule of law?

tonybell_57

[QUOTE=Legal Bill,Nov 15 2006, 11:53 PM] I don't know Mike.

ralper

I don't know. I think its very easy to say what you would or wouldn't do while sitting in front of a computer. I don't think any of us could say with any degree of surity what we would actually do if the situation was real.



That, however, is something that I agree with absolutely.

mikegarrison

Can't be done. Once you've been tried for a crime and acquitted, you can't be tried for it again.

That's to prevent the government from just going after someone over and over until they finally get lucky with a jury.

valentine

This same thing was done before in interviews that Ted Bundy conducted with some news reporter. No one should buy his stupid book.

dean

I doubt that I could either, even if it required jury nullification outside the parameters of the law. While his guilt as a murderer couldn't be legally established, it is an established fact that he is a wife-beating scumbag. It's strange to me that some choose to skim over that little fact.

RC - Ryder

I won't be reading this ego-maniac's book either. I guess golf is getting boring, or he's been watching too much CSI Miami down there. People like him just cannot deal with anonymity. Just how stupid can it be to write such a book?

Jumpy Guy

The book is bad enough but for Fox to actually air the interview is terrible. I can't believe that a network would stoop so low.