An Important Distinction

oo - look a non-polical post!

My Way News - Vegas police talked of 'getting' O.J. on recording:

"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.'

Police detective Andy Caldwell conceded the statement was made as a team of officers examined a casino hotel room where Simpson is accused of leading a kidnapping and armed robbery. Caldwell said the comment came from a civilian employee of the police department, not a sworn officer."

It is very important here to remember that it was a civilian and not an officer. However, one has to wonder why there would be a civie there at all -- was it an informant? does Nevada consider CSI as civs, I thought they were officers too? Perhaps not. but what other civie would be there?

Actually I don't think its fair that the past case can't be brought up since that seems to be at the heart of the matter.

After all, the just of it is that OJ gave the merchandise at first to sell, but learned that any monies from the sale would be seized to pay the judgement of the civil suit that blamed him for the deaths of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. So he went to get it back ... but when regular 'give it back' didn't work he went in with guns blazing.

Although it sounds like he has got the funds for quite the defense team there -- I would have thought his assets were so tied up that he would have to have a public defender ... unless the Nevada tax payer is footing the bill for, what sounds like, three lawyers for a defendant (although there are two of them there).

I wonder why they decided to try both cases at the same time instead of severing them from each other? I mean, if one is found guilty does that automatically convict the other as well? That sounds rather ooky.