' It took America over a year to do the OJ trial, how come Bin Laden is guilty within 7 days?'
I have a bit of evperience in the legal system so I might comment a bit. Any district attorney will tell you most evidence is gathered in the first couple weeks after a case. Often a case is 'cracked' on the spot. It depend on a variety of factors like eyewitnesses, physical evidence, etc.The rest of the time before a trial is paperwork, motions and the like.
Without getting into particulars evidence was found linking Bin Laden materially to almost all the hijackers so far. His hand seem to be all over this one. Whether a jury buys the evidence is speculation but I wouldn't lose any sleep if he got whacked tomorrow. His rap sheet's a mile long and he makes no bones about being an innocent choirboy.
OJ toook a year because his legal team dragged out the case. Still OJ did more time than many a murder suspect which brings up the story about a judge handing out a sentence, "If your guilty consider yourself lucky for getting a short sentence. If your innocent let that be a lesson to you!"
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Re: Thank you from Detective Inspector Joe Doakes
Date: 2001-09-22 05:10 pm (UTC)I have a bit of evperience in the legal system so I might comment a bit. Any district attorney will tell you most evidence is gathered in the first couple weeks after a case. Often a case is 'cracked' on the spot. It depend on a variety of factors like eyewitnesses, physical evidence, etc.The rest of the time before a trial is paperwork, motions and the like.
Without getting into particulars evidence was found linking Bin Laden materially to almost all the hijackers so far. His hand seem to be all over this one. Whether a jury buys the evidence is speculation but I wouldn't lose any sleep if he got whacked tomorrow. His rap sheet's a mile long and he makes no bones about being an innocent choirboy.
OJ toook a year because his legal team dragged out the case. Still OJ did more time than many a murder suspect which brings up the story about a judge handing out a sentence, "If your guilty consider yourself lucky for getting a short sentence. If your innocent let that be a lesson to you!"