From dcstager@calon.com Wed Jan 11 12:51:19 EST 1995 Article: 13743 of alt.fan.oj-simpson Newsgroups: alt.fan.oj-simpson Path: news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!rochester!casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc. cmu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howl and.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!hilbert.dnai.com! nbn!news From: dcstager@calon.com (David Stager) Subject: OJ's "perfect" bullshit story Message-ID: Sender: news@nbn.com Organization: Master of Technology, Inc. X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:40:42 GMT Lines: 61 With the high level of crime everywhere, it is no longer enough for the police to just prove the criminal did it. Before your case ever gets into court -- before a District Attorney will even file your case -- the increasing courtroom trend is that the police must also disprove any conceivable "bullsh**" story the criminal (or the criminal's attorney) might concoct in court. By applying standard and accepted "bullsh**" courtroom defense techniques to bear on the O.J. Simpson case, here's the story any typical street criminal, or any halfway decent criminal defense attorney will probably offer up in court: The prosecution has rested. O.J. takes the witness stand and says: "Yes, I was stalking Nicole and her boyfriend. Yes, I was very jealous and angry. I was following her around, driving my Bronco, and wearing my driving gloves and stocking cap. I don't want people to recognize me in public, so I sometimes wear the cap. All of a sudden, I saw some guy come out of the bushes and it looked like he was going to rob them! "I knew I had to do something to help, but by the time I ran across the street, it was too late! He'd slashed their throats! I tried to grab him and we wrestled around. I guess that's when one of my gloves came off and the stocking cap got ripped off my head. Then he started slashing at me and he cut my finger with a knife, but I got in a good punch on the guy and he ran off. "I went over to Nicole and her boyfriend and I guess I touched them. All I was doing was checking to see if I could do CPR or something to save them, but they were dead and there was blood all over the place. I was s-scared. I knew everyone would blame me because of my history, and how could I explain why I was there without telling the police I was following her? I knew it would look bad. "Yes, I washed the blood off my car, that's true. Like I said, I was scared. But I didn't do it! Yes, I lied to the police at first. But I was right! The police DID try to blame me! But it was really this other guy! I knew I didn't do it, so I knew the police couldn't prove I did it. Yeah, I hopped the back fence and I guess I dropped the other glove with the blood from Nicole and Ron on it, but like I said, I touched them both to see if I could do CPR! "After I got a lawyer, he told me not to say anything so I couldn't tell the police the truth later when I realized the police were going to blame me anyway. But I'm telling the truth now! I didn't do it! You've got to believe me! "I've got a problem with obsession -- I admit it. I still loved her and I was following her -- but I didn't kill her! I didn't want to admit my problems and tell the world that I was a stalker. But I was. I've got a problem, and I know now that what I did was a mistake. I shouldn't have lied, but I lied because of my problem, I couldn't admit a mistake, but I'm not a murderer! I was there, but it wasn't me that killed them! Because I lied, the real killer is going to get away! I'll have to bear that burden all my life. It was selfish and stupid. I'm so sorry." With all the money, lawyers, jury consultants, media hype, celebrity worship, and O.J.'s general acting skills and likability, a simple street-level "bullsh**" story is all it's going to take for O.J. to beat the rap. It happens all the time in every courtroom every day. O.J. would walk. [Or, as a caller said on a talk show the other night, "O.J. would be out on the golf course today, right where he belongs, if he'd hired Gerry Spence as his lawyer.", to which I totally agree -TBM]