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Originally Posted by Slipknot
OJ wasn't prosecuted in Federal court for a mandatory sentence crime was he? I thought the prosecutors blew that case
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OJ was prosecuted by the Los Angeles County Distict Attorney--an incompetent named Gil Garcetti--in the Superior Court held in and for the County of Los Angeles, Downtown division. Which is not where the crime should have been prosecuted, as it arose within the geographical jurisdiction of the Santa Monica department. However, since Santa Monica would have resulted in a predominantly white jury, and Garcetti was still smarting from the acquittal of the cops who beat Rodney King, he moved the trial to the Downtown division, where a racially mixed jury would result--to give the verdit "legitimacy". Garcetti thought--stupidly--he had a slam dunk and couldn't lose in front of any jury.
And most Federal judges aren't anything like Lance Ito
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