8 responses for this post

1. Maggie on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 8:37 am

   Gross.

2. sandra on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 9:42 am

   He must have hypnotized the jury with his hair.

3. Michael on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 9:55 am

   How could they not come up with a verdict for Phil Spector?

   People stupid.

   And I won’t go so far as to say they watch too much TV (blasphemy!), but they confuse it with actual reality. Which I guess kinda brings us back to “people stupid.”

4. Greater Czarina on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 1:25 pm

   From what I heard, only two jurors felt reasonable doubt, due to the suicide argument, which resulted in the mistrial. The prosecutor is intent on retrying…hopefully EVERYONE on the next jury will be on the same page.

5. freakgirl on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 1:27 pm

   Sigh.

   Because whenever I feel suicidal, I do believe that the best way for me to kill myself is to pick up a total stranger at a bar, go back to his house, borrow his gun and then shoot myself in the face in his entryway.

   Best lawyers money can buy, I guess.

6. Michael on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 2:17 pm

   Yes, the best lawyers, and then I guess people do not fucking understand that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is not the same as “beyond a doubt.”

7. El Gato on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 2:17 pm

   Trials aren’t about truth. They’re about the best lawyer winning.

8. oolookitty on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 2:50 pm

   I thought it might be because they’re being asked to find him guilty of murder, which presupposes that he intended to kill her, versus manslaughter, which presupposes that he’s an idiot who likes to wave guns in people’s faces and that he didn’t really ever intend to kill anybody. Perhaps they should have made manslaughter an option; I think that would have gotten a conviction.

   I could be totally wrong, though.

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