Bill Cosby Guilty!

[Huggy Bear]

I think what LFC means is this:

The jury did not find him guilty based on the evidence provided.  That does not necessarily mean he is innocent.  After all, those are merely the opinions of twelve fallible people.  Factoring in how the evidence was presented by lawyers, how does it still not surprise people who watch public trials that those watching see the evidence much differently than those on the jury?

Our justice system is imperfect, no doubt about it.  But even I highly doubt so many women are going to get together to bring down a man who was loved by all who watched him on television.  It makes more sense that he is actually guilty of what they claim than to be a retarded conspiracy nut.

Case in point, from the article I linked to about the final OJ Simpson Jury, some salient points that could have influenced the jury:

(*) nine of the twelve jurors were black.
(*) five thought it was sometimes appropriate to use force on a family member,
(*) five reported that they or another family member had had a negative experience with the police,
(*) nine thought that Simpson was less likely to be a murderer because he was a professional athlete,

All of these factors were likely to influence the decisions of the Jury. Many liked OJ, some had views on the police that predisposed them to suspect that Fuhrman planted the evidence that led him to be charged, and some may have felt that OJ's rage was, on some level, justifiable.

Well, that and the whole glove fiasco, and nobody seems to be sure exactly how that happened (my guess is the same as Robert Kardashian, that he stopped taking his arthritis medication in the weeks prior to the demonstration and his hands may have swelled big enough that the gloves barely fit).

I know this fool has me blocked, I'm going to address this anyway

(*) nine of the twelve jurors were black.

Are you literally implying that black jurors cannot be impartial?

There were 10 white jurors on the Cosby trial with testimony that at least one was not impartial.

(*) five thought it was sometimes appropriate to use force on a family member,

Ok...

obviously this depends on the context, unless you're saying that under no circumstances is it appropriate to use force on a family member.

(*) five reported that they or another family member had had a negative experience with the police,

Really? What about the negative experience of the corrupt cop who was actually involved in the trial?

(*) nine thought that Simpson was less likely to be a murderer because he was a professional athlete,

OJ would have been the first black multimillionaire athlete to PERSONALLY kill someone at the time, if you have that kind of money you'd hire someone. It's not like OJ didn't have the connections to do so, Nicole's sister was dating a known mafia hitman...
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-...ld-goldman

Among the witnesses is Anthony "Tony the Animal" Fiato, a former underworld hit man who entered the federal witness-protection program after becoming a government informer in the early 1980s.

Sources close to the defense said that Fiato, who dated Nicole Brown's sister Denise earlier this year, would testify that he heard a key detective in the murder investigation admit that police quickly decided Simpson was a suspect.