26-02-2014, 11:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-02-2014, 12:33 PM by Marc Ellis.)
LR Trotter Wrote:Marc Ellis Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:"....Few Boomers are capable of understanding the first thing about the JFK assassination because the evidence leads them somewhere their pop cultural conditioning won't allow them to go."
I lol'd when I read that. It's true. But maybe give the boomers some credit too. 70+% of them don't believe the official story either.
A related area writers sometimes raise is authentication or the chain-of-custody. There is no way to authenticate so many exhibits in this case. Thus, they would be inadmissible as evidence against Oswald. Hell, even Kennedy's brain can't be authenticated. It vanished.
Super-lawyer Bugliosi aside, LHO would walk if I were a juror on his case. I might consider a conspiracy count against him. But homicide? No way. The prosecution's case was screwed up from the beginning.
They think Garrison's case was a mess? Too bad they never got a chance to prosecute Oswald. That would have been a circus that made Garrison's case look prudent and cautious by comparison.
Yes Mr Ellis, I would agree that the percentage of US citizens born between 1946 and 1964 that believe the LHO Lone Gunman story is less than 3 out of 10, JMO.
Looking back now, as far as a trial for LHO as an accused assassin, I have to wonder about the quality of the defense's case. I mean, who would his attorney be, and how hard would that attorney try for a not guilty verdict? In any event, a multi-ring circus!
::doorhide::
Yeah, and as always, who's the judge? But with a reasonable jury and all the problems in the prosecutor's case - authentication and otherwise - if the case had been tried on the merits -- LHO should have walked or at most, gone down on a conspiracy...or maybe even an accessory rap. That's all.