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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You're putting a lot of stock in the evidence the defense bar is adducing in the press instead of whatever the prosecutor's got. If, e.g., the time stamp on that digital camera is off by an hour -- say, not reset for daylight savings time, like my digital camera -- then the alibi disappears, right?
I'm not saying he's guilty, but if I have learned anything about the press coverage of the matters I've worked on, it's that the press coverage is worth about what we paid for that ABCNews.com story.
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2. I hardly think a camera's time stamp is a piece of unimpeachable conclusive evidence.
This thing is already turning into a low rate Bonfire of the Vanities. Its got all the badges to dredge up all sorts of debates on class and race which really don't belong anywhere near the case.
The case involves a rape. The rest of what those kids did is not a crime and has nothing to do with the case. The only thing that matters is if they sexually assaulted that girl in the bathroom as she alleges. the remainder of the evening is prologue and, unless there was a cover-up afterward, epilogue. Except to the whores in the press, of course, who want to create a nasty, bitter cultural debate out of it.
Fuck the news.
