Appropriate punishment for animal cruelty

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

hunting is spiritual

and it is possible for Fruman to be a racist cop and for OJ to be guilty
regardless of the verdict

It's also possible that George Bush is an alien and Kerry is really Lurch reincarnated..."being possible" is hardly grounds for a guilty verdict. The problem with that case was the handling of the investigation by the LAPD from beginning to end. The LAPD has a terrible rep in minority community and this was certainly not their finest hour. The prosecution team was overmatched by OJ's "dream team"...that's sad but then, how many times is an innocent person convicted of a crime because they had to rely on a Public Defender who was either overworked, inept or simply not caring? It saddens me that the rich can buy their way out of trouble and that's another topic (remember me...the alleged communist/socialist/anarchist?) but here...Furman handled key evidence...are you sure he didn't tamper with or plant same? I'm not! There were unexplained problems with the prosecution's time line, a glove that didn't fit, lack of key evidence, sudden appearance of socks...on and on!