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To: Suma who wrote (15792)	3/4/2005 10:20:56 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 20773

The DNA they proved was contaminated....??? To illustrate how little I followed that trial...the only thing I remember is hearing about the extensive testimony from multiple experts and thinking...geez, all you're going to do is confuse the jurors with technical shit they don't understand and put them to sleep. And that spin about a drug deal gone bad.... Game of the defense is to offer other possible explanations. If they can convince the jury there are other possibilities, it gets them off because it falls below "beyond a reasonable doubt"... and how about all this money he has put up to find the REAL KILLERS.. That goes off the deep end of "circumstantial". How about professional juries... I think that's a non-starter. If you want to head in that direction, I think the more obvious solution is to have three judges in lieu of the jury system. But neither the prosecution or the defense is going to support that notion. They both love to play to emotion. Either option might require a Constitutional change. Not sure whether professional jurors would meet a criteria of jury of peers; and the three judge panel certainly would require a change. Judges do have the option of throwing out a jury verdict. Cheers, jttmab

To: Suma who wrote (15792)	3/4/2005 8:17:43 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Messing around with important evidence is a serious thing, even if it is very obvious, that messing around.. My personal pre-OJ favorite is finding traces of explosives in underwear, something anyone with a little knowledge of chemistry and explosives, plus fertilizers have a lot of fun with. I think it was one FBI chemist who blew that horn, it was his underwear.. .. dl.zvuki.ru Might be a fairly safe link, for anyone not under the Ridge jurisdiction. Btw, I believe that the OJ trial was a long step forward for USA, in terms of scientific insights into basic chemistry. ..