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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (15733)12/7/2002 2:43:22 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) of 57110
 
I heard (on some talking head show so it could be untrue) that 3 mos fulltime community service isn't even given to grand theft auto

I just think it should be fair, not more severe just because she is Wynona Ryder

Apparently the standard on a first time shoplifting charge is a deferred judgement or misdemeanor, not grand theft which is a felony. I'm sick of that OJ fiasco coming up every time there is any legal matter... OJ has nothing to do with this. Geez we are going to be living with OJ for the next 100 yrs.

Legal experts were surprised at the severity of the charges brought against her, saying that shoplifting cases seldom go to trial. Some suggested that she was singled out for her celebrity.

“This is a witch hunt,” a high-level prosecutor told the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal newspaper. “This was all designed to show we can win high-profile cases.”

“We are still living with the aftermath of O.J. Simpson,” said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson. She was referring to the 1995 trial of Simpson, who was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife and a friend of hers in a case which many charged was botched by Cooley’s predecessor, Gil Garcetti.

“Cooley is very sensitive to the issue of letting a celebrity off easy and (Ryder) was sensitive about having a felony on her record,” Levenson told Reuters. “This was a glorified shoplifting case. He certainly did throw the book at her and,
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