Comments on: Radio Runs

By: nails stainless steel

nails stainless steel — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:58:50 +0000

I’ll immediately grab your rss as I can not find your e-mail subscription link or e-newsletter service. Do you’ve any? Kindly let me know in order that I could subscribe. Thanks.

By: Clio

Clio — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:21:35 +0000

The other day, one of my posts disappeared after it was submitted successfully. I thought that the Editors had deemed this particular response too risque and had deleted it quietly (as is their purview), but its disappearance may have been related to these technical glitches.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:41:14 +0000

Yes. It froze up, and I had to reboot.

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:04:18 +0000

Is anyone having problems posting?

By: Clio

Clio — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:59:17 +0000

I cannot wait to see for myself if Connolly is as great as everyone thinks that he is! Thanks, Themis and Craig.

By: Clio

Clio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:33:14 +0000

So, if Diane Durham used the f-word once in anger, then it’s game over for the prosecution? I don’t think so. No, first, the f-word or the use of gay in a derogatory manner is not as taboo as other epithets. They should be, but they are not.

Racism and racist slurs are considered by the society at large to be much more devastating in their impacts, than homophobia and homophobic slurs. So, Bernie cannot hope to do a Johnnie Cochran with this material.

Plus, the very notoriety of OJ and his singular success at beating the rap means that his legal team’s strategy will never, ever be successful again. There never will be another OJ trial with its astonishing outcome. Sorry, Spag!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:43 +0000

My memories of the OJ trial are pretty hazy – I was glued to my computer games – but as I remember it, Mark Fuhrman got tarred because of a fictional character he was creating with a failed filmmaker. His “badass cop” monologue got caught on tape and was used to paint him as too racist to objectively follow procedure. So everyone who watched the news back then “knows” Fuhrman is a racist, but is he really? Wasn’t it just a bit of theater?

The Dream Team’s deft handling of this boondoggle apparently contributed more than any other factor to setting Simpson free. So – is this all the Swann defense has to do? Find evidence that one or more of the responders once used homophobic slurs? When I look at all the damning evidence in the OJ case, I get pretty depressed.

By: former crackho

former crackho — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:37:57 +0000

Oh, I don’t know….Mr. and Mrs. Brady did sleep in the same bed, you know…though he truly was quite light in the loafers. Even as a little gay kid, I could tell that Mike had more interest in Sam the Butcher than he did in Carol.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:30:22 +0000

Themis – Tomorrow’s post has the Sept 11 status hearing transcript. Both sides mixed it up, with Weisberg too weighing in on Brady, Jencks and Rule 16 stuff. ‘Stuff,’ I’m told is the tecnical term…

I’d hope we could’ve had the xscript sooner, but better late than later.

It’s a good read and to this legally clueless observer, seems to show Weisberg’s thought process and approach.

It’s also a good window into the division of labor among the Four Horsemen. The Spag, Bernie and Connolly seem to have clearly defined roles.

Its like a relay race: Spag runs at Kirschner/Martin, passes the baton then Bernie who takes his shots, then Connolly runs the anchor leg.

By: Themis

Themis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:36:58 +0000

The Jencks Act and Brady v. Maryland provide two distinct bases for requesting information. The Jencks Act covers a witness’s statements prior to testifying and Brady covers exculpatory material.

The material being requested is available to these defendants, like any other defendants, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16(E) if the defendants convince the court it is material to the preparation of their defense. Nothing unusual, nothing sinister. Just due process of law, which is guaranteed to the innocent and guilty alike in our adversarial system of justice.

In fact, defense counsel would be engaging in malpractice not to seek the information.

That is especially so since DOJ attorneys have had some high profile lapses regarding their Brady obligations recently and the Public Integrity Unit of DOJ is being revamped and revised ethics training is being planned for federal prosecutors. That is not to say that the prosecutors here are in any way guilty of any wrongdoing. But any attorney worth his salt is not going to rely solely upon Brady to obtain necessary discovery if there are other avenues available.