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From: Jasper
Date: 9/14/04
Time: 1:13:27 PM
Remote Name: 69.212.228.217
Ludwig,
I’m not calling the dream team “incompetent.” Their job was to win an acquittal for their client. They took on a “mountain of evidence” against him and they reduced it to rubble. They did this with the handicap of limited resources (the prosecution outgunned them more than ten to one in money, lawyers and investigator) and the requirement to hand over to the prosecution everything they discovered in their investigation. Furthermore, they had so many anonymous junk leads to wade through and the prosecution swamped them with so much unnecessary paperwork that the resources they had were stretched to the max every step of the way. To top it off, the prosecution put on such a long, boring, disjointed case in chief and in rebuttal that the defense had to cut their presentation short to keep the jury’s attention.
All things considered, the dream team did a masterful job. Had they worked for the prosecution to uncover the truth, I have no doubt that they would have found it.
Unfortunately, nobody in the cast took on the job of uncovering the truth. The LAPD and the DA were supposed to do it but they didn’t. They jumped to the early conclusion that O.J. was guilty and worked their butts off to present a convincing case to the jury that they were right. The dream team’s job was to punch holes in the prosecution’s case, to scatter the arrows of guilt pointing toward their client in different directions. They did their job exceedingly well, which was good for O.J. AND the killer.
The defense did its job so well that individual members of the team were incapable of seeking and finding coherent patterns of guilt converging on one man. When their job was done they were as ignorant as everybody else about who could have committed the murders IF O.J. Didn’t… They couldn’t even follow up on the question the way Chris Springer, Donald Freed and I did because the questions they left unanswered could have put a noose around their client’s neck. Our work was built mostly on theirs. It was no skin off our noses if the blanks we sough to fill came back with O.J.’s name in them. There was no way for us to know that they would come back with Fuhrman’s name in them.
For the dream team to do what we did would have been unethical conduct – and the killer knew it. –Jasper