by Diane on November 22, 2009
Mohammed Wants All Americans Dead
So, the so-called 9-11 Gang of Five will go on trial in a federal court as opposed to before a military commission. The bottom line question then has to be: Are you ready for the possibility that Khalid Sheik Mohammed or any of his fellow collaborators might walk free on a sly defense attorney’s manipulation of our system?
Don’t think it couldn’t happen.
Millionaire Robert Durst walked free even after he admitted to murdering a neighbor. In my opinion O.J. Simpson got a free pass too after taking the lives of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. I could cite other cases in which juries, again in my opinion, did not come to the right conclusion. Take it from me it happens.
As you sit reading this column there are American lawyers preparing and strategizing right now on how they might secure the freedom of … [click to continue…]
by Diane on December 13, 2008
O.J. is sorry ... too late
For all the words spoken at the sentencing of convicted felon, O.J. Simpson, I find most interesting what wasn’t said.
The courtroom was rapt as District Court Judge Jackie Glass ran through a long list of the nearly dozen robbery and kidnapping based felonies Simpson was charged with and his punishment for each charge. It totaled up to 33 years in prison for the former football and movie star. Simpson won’t be eligible for parole until he serves at least 9 years.
But no one in court said that it is highly unlikely he’ll get parole his first time out, hardly anyone does. [click to continue…]
by Diane on September 20, 2008
Nicole Brown Simpson - one of two victims
I had never seen so much blood in my life.
As the coroner’s wagon pulled away – there it was. Puddles of it. Some of it had oozed down the cracks in between the pathway pavers and toward the sidewalk. As I looked closer I could see paw prints from a large dog and patterned traces of wispy blood that its dragging leash had left behind. Up toward the gate of the fancy condo statuesque Agapanthus stood, its purple flower heads dotted with drops of this blood.
It was June 1994, about ten a.m. on a sunny Sunday in Brentwood, California. My cameraman and I, the reporter on duty that weekend, had been assigned to go to the home of Nicole Brown Simpson. Word was O.J.’s ex-wife had been murdered.
My first thoughts that beautiful morning were: Why didn’t someone take a hose and wash away this horror – and – where were the police?
With no one to stop us, and with camera rolling, we gingerly tiptoed to the gate and opened it. Across a shallow courtyard was the plate glass window behind which Nicole had lived. We could see inside the cozy living room with its overhead balcony leading off to the side bedrooms. Candles were still burning, framed photos of a smiling Nicole and her kids were everywhere. Outside, there were bloody footprints and what seemed to be a bloody handprint on the side of the house. Eerie, and to this day I remember it vividly.
Is OJ’s voice on the audio tape evidence enough?
Vote in my online poll after the jump…
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