On (06 May 95) Matt Smith wrote to Gary Livermore...
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 MS>     It would be wild to see McVeigh and O.J. get the same hung jury
 MS> result...one with a whole law firm of high-price lawyers and one with a
 MS> federal public defender!
No doubt in my mind that O.J. will get off.  And the State could
not afford another big lengthy trial.  Just a couple more Jurors
to be dropped,and the defence will call a misstrial and have to
start from day one all over again.
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 GL> BTW, what is your field of expertise?
 MS>
 MS>     I'm a collections lawyer.  I sue people who don't pay clients like
 MS> lenders.
(I'm sorry) :-)
 MS>     But initially, I did a lot of court-appointed criminal work at the
 MS> start of my career.  And I've personally tried criminal cases in which
 MS> juries brought back verdicts totally inconsistent with any reasonable
 MS> interpretation of the evidence.
 MS>     So I say that McVeigh will likely get a hung jury.
What really fries my buscuits, is when a jury acquits someone,
and the JUDGE OVERRULES their verdict and finds the defendant
guilty!!!  I've read about a few of those in the paper and it
just makes me go AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!
(Whew, now I feel better!) :-)
      
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