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To: ztect who wrote (151)	2/21/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 193

<< Victor, You are certain of this point. "...Drug people do not use knives. They use guns..." >> AT the time of the trial, the drug deal thing was offered as a possibility and I heard both police and a criminologist/university prof state that drug dealers use guns not knives. One reason for this is that drug dealers are often at odds with each other over their "turf". So if one dd has a gun, would other dd's who may have trouble with him use knives? No, because the others would never get near enough to him to use their knives- they'd already be shot. So they all carry guns. << But have not addressed the issues I raised about noise and evidence. Do drug dealers use silencers on unregistered guns? Are silencers easy or hard to come buy? >> I do not know. I don't think silencers are easy to get; in fact I think they may be illegal for most people to have. << Again if someone was killing someone in a neighborhood like Brentwood where police react immediately, wouldn't a killer use a weapon that doesn't make a lot of noise? Gun fire is pretty loud isn't it? If you were a neighbor wouldn't you hear this gun fire? >> Yes, esp given the fact that Nicole S. lived in some kind of aprtment / condo complex, not a stand-alone house. << Again whether the murderer be OJ or someone else, do you not see any logic in the choice of a knife as the the murder weapon?>> Yup- makes sense. << If Ron Goldman hadn't been in the wrong place at the wrong time, killing Nicole or Paula or whomever would have been very easy with a knife wouldn't it. Even with Goldman there, the struggle didn't appear to be very long, did it? "Drug people" can buy knives can't they? >> Yes, no, and yes. << Plus I do remember something about there being two types of cut from what were possibly two different knifes. >> I don't rcall this but you may be right. << In your opinion did OJ wield two knives, or did he have an accomplice? Any thought as to the identity of this accomplice? >> I don't know about the two-knife thing. I don't recall learning of 2 knives being used. IMO it would have been almost impossible for an accomplice scenario to not have been blown wide open by either the police or the media. << btw- I've heard many crimes like smash and runs and other robberies are being committed with knives, since the penal ramifications if caught using a gun are much more severe than for using a knife. >> Sure but Nicole was nearly decapitated. There was both great strength and extreme rage involved, imo. Would a robber or dd go to such extremes? Victor