Do I Smell A Fuhrman?
Or Is That Just What Bacon Normally Smells Like?
Just to give you fair warning, O.J. Simpson could get off again.
The Juice is on trial for storming into the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas and “liberating” some sports memorabilia at gunpoint. The prosecution would like to make the case about the largely inescapable facts that O.J. and his friends stole the goods and had guns.
O.J. and his lawyer Yale Galanter would like the case to turn on some other factor: persecution, “justifiable” larceny, wookies.
After the train wreck that was Mark Fuhrman, you’d think that any cop investigating O.J. would be on his best behavior. But there seems to be something about police officers losing their collective minds when it comes to O.J.
In testimony last week, detective Andy Caldwell essentially admitted that he turned into the great Cornholio when he found out that O.J. Simpson was prominently involved:
Jurors who have been told to refrain from judging O.J. Simpson on his past heard a recording Thursday of a police employee exulting: “This is great. … California can’t get him. … Now we’ll be able to.”
The recording was made by Thomas Riccio, the star witness for the prosecution.
Nice.
Maybe this will still work out for Vegas PD. After all, finding 12 people who have not already pre-judged Simpson is practically impossible. But the heart of Simpson’s first brush with the law was shoddy and untrustworthy police work.
Here we go again.
Update (10/04/08): See here.
Vegas police talked of ‘getting’ O.J. on recording [My Way News]
In Session [CNN]
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police offers?
These pretzels are making Mystttal suck. Yet again. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
"But the heart of Simpson's first brush with the law was shoddy and untrustworthy police work."
Really? I thought the *heart* of his first "brush with the law" was the murder of two people?
Its officer! This is my first time bashing Elie, but c'mon man. Just read it over once, just once and you will catch the errors. Your readers deserve better.
4 - it's "it's".
I fail to see the issue here. Can we get Elie out of here?
Next time I screw up, forget calling my buds for a recommendation--I'm calling OJ because he picks the best crim defense lawyers. You can't even blame it "If you have money, you can get off" this time because he's broke.
who names their kid Yale?
8: Yale is the white version of naming your kid Mercedes, Porsche or Alexis. Sure beats naming your kid GULC though.
5- Thank you for catching my error but I am not getting paid to write my comments.
-4
Maybe I'm a little dense, but can someone explain to me what is so bad about a cop expressing glee over having a chance to put a double murderer in jail?
"...detective Andy Caldwell essentially admitted that he turned into the great Cornholio when he found out that O.J. Simpson was prominently involved...."
Beavis and Butthead?? Be serious.
- when are you going to get rid of the mistake that is MysTTTal
Elie, you retard. Caldwell didn't make the comment. He was just asked about it. The article says that the comment came from a "civilian employee of the police department, not a sworn officer." Kill yourself.
Elie,
You cannot be bothered to read the articles you link. You cannot be bothered to proofread the crap you post. Do you take any pride in your work whatsoever? You are terrible.
go back to writing about cochlear implants
Attempted tackles always look clumsy when the Juice breaks 'em.
14: Stop giving Elie a hard time. Just like the time he said Justice Scalia was campaigning for McCain, then linked to an article that said nothing of the sort, this is a joke.
See, Elie says the officer made that comment, but it was just a civilian employee. Ha ha ha! Get it?
nice work 14
B&BH = Hilarious. Keep the old school coming, Elie.
In other news, why is O.J.'s stupid ass even in the U.S.? Even Michael Jackson figured out when to GTFO.
Speaking of football, Penn laid a beat-down on Temple on Saturday in a great Philadelphia rivalry. Penn should brand its law school as the "Joe Paterno School of Law"!
ATL to -1 Elie!
ATL to -1 Elie!
"But the heart of Simpson's first brush with the law was shoddy and untrustworthy police work. "
OK, seriously, what does this sentence even mean? Is English your first language? I am so confused.
when does bonus news start to come out - is that around now, or later in the year?
#21 is seriously mistaken. As a Penn alum, I am sad to say that it was Penn State that laid the aforementioned beat-down on Temple this weekend. You are not the first to confuse the two (hence the popularity of the Not Penn State t-shirts), nor will you be the last.
21, did you go to Penn's Philly campus or its Dickinson School near Harrisburg?
next post please
Okay, we have a football angle here, but we have a legal angle too. The Penn State/Temple game would be relevant only if Temple had a law school.
Mystal, you smell like bacon.
Sincerely,
UVA2L
ps: Suck it.
29, Temple has a pre-law clinic with the Beasley firm, a big plaintiff's firm in town (not that it makes the Penn/Temple game remotely relevant to this post).
29 - Temple does have a law school; in fact, it's second only to U. Penn St. in prestige.
26: Aren't they just different campuses? I.e., Penn-Philly, Penn-State College (hence, "Penn State")? I think State College is where the football team plays, and Philly is where Penn also has its Widener business school.
I hear GULC has an internship program with The Van Winkle firm where students are exposed to some very complex cross border transactions and bet the firm litigation.
33, are you serious? Widener is not Penn State! Penn State has the famous Warten Management Institute. Get your shit straight.
26 is an elitist snob. Penn's other state campuses are just as good as its Philly campus (maybe without some of the cultural benefits, but still).
I hope this story was posted so as to buy time before one of the other 100 more important things going on is written up and researched.
29: well, maybe in Philly. Temple's clinic isn't known much outside the area (and isn't really necessary if you plan on getting a JD anyway).
I thought the heart of Simpson's first brush with the law was reverse racism and jury nullification.
Elie, this is really sloppy. Worse than sloppy.
The cop didn't say the words you attributed to him. Moreover, even if he did, it would be no big deal. So a cop wants to arrest a guy who escaped justice on an earlier charge. Where's the story there?
You compare the cop here to Mark Furman. I'm reading along thinking that this cop got caught making racist comments, or belonging to some racist organization. . . and then, this is it?
Sloppy - beyond sloppy.
Guys in my high school were enthusiastic about doing their jobs all the time. It was no big deal.
- COP STUD
Elie has invented a brilliant new form of reporting. You come up with the most sensational bullshit lie that has no relation to what actually happened and then you include the actual story so that you can just claim it was a joke. Here, I'll demonstrate:
Elie Mystal admits he was an affirmative action hire:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/09/do_i_smell_a_fuhrman.php#comments
#35 is (mostly) correct. The Warten Management Institute is affiliated with University of Penn State (Philadelphia campus). Penn U is located in Carlisle--the Dickinson College of Law is affiliated with that institution.
11 - i agree. what are they going to say? who cares what the police officer thinks of the last case - how does that effect the fact that he arrested OJ with guns stealing from some guy?
Wow, you people are really, really confused. Penn is ivy league, and its busines school is called "Wharton," not Widener (which is a separate college with campuses in Del. and Pa.). Penn State is a completely separate school -- a state school, not ivy league. Penn should just change its name to avoid this kind of confusion. (University of Philadelphia, Ben Franklin University?)
45, Penn can't change its name. That would render all that Joe Paterno memorabilia obsolete.
If the Lions of Philadelphia ever changed their school's name, it would be a sad sad day in the Big 10.
Nice Hemingway nod.
Law involving famous (or in this case...infamous) people has become such a sideshow. When mass coverage is involved it's as if the normal legal system is suspended temporarily to produce some sensational resolution. OJ somehow eeked past the law in his last "brush with the law" (really, only a brush?) and it seems like every other celeb gets incredible "benefit of the doubt" judgments. Few other recent examples like Anna Nicole Smith with her absurd forum shopping when trying to clean out the estate of her husband (of which she was entitled to $0), The lengthy list of tax evaders like Wesley Snipes or Suge Knight, The LITANY of celebrities who amass DUI after DUI and get slaps on the wrist. But I guess everyone knew justice was blind from the outset so game on!