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To: MSB who wrote (14574)	1/1/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 108807

MSB: You are correct, of course. I should have said, "justice was not done, in my opinion" defining justice in its pure or abstract sense and not as defined as the outcome of our judicial system. As I spoke of in a previous post, the constitutional right against double jeopardy works for some and not for others, depending on what the authorities feel is best. Officer Stacy Koon, whether actually guilty or not of the beating of Rodney King, was acquitted by a jury of his peers, then retried (on a different charge, of course) in a different court and convicted. The bottom line is that his acquital was not politically expedient (even President Bush decried the acquital) so the authorities got him some prison time. OJ Simpson, on the other hand, was acquitted by his peers (rightly or wrongly) and was not retried (except for a civil suit). Think of the hue and cry (and maybe riots) that would have resulted if the Feds had retried OJ for violating Nicole's civil rights, which, in fact, he seems to have done ("life, liberty, etc"). Jack