Why getting away with Murder is sometimes good.

Calm down, I'm not condoning murder. Lets take a look at a few murder trials, mainly Robert Blake's trial. The former "Beretta" star and wonderfully creepy guy from David Lynch's utterly wacked out "Lost Highway" was just found Not Guilty. He most likely murdered his wife but he got away with it. Now this is no O.J trial where the evidence was more than enough to convict but whether you agree or not the mostly black jury got their revenge for Rodney King and the scores of other African American's who have been beaten, murdered and never saw justice done in their cases. Unfortunately Nicole Simpson,Ronald Goldman and their loved ones had to suffer for the disgusting abuses of power Law enforcement and the Justice System has rought upon the black community. But I digress.
So in Blakes case I was glad he was found Not Guilty. Not because his wife was a philandering floozy, someone who used sex to coerce wealthy famous men to bed her and get her pregnant. Not because she bilked these men out of their money and swindled other innocent people through lonely heart mail ad's. Though not a model citizen she didn't deserve to die. The fact that I am glad he was found innocent is because the case was weak and barring the fact that he had motive they had nothing on him. I am a big supporter of people who are falsely accused and convicted of crimes they did not commit. Now this isn't one of those cases but I still have a fear of being charged with a crime because "it just makes sense that he did it".
Take a look at Scott Pederson. This piece of shit killed his wife and unborn child or at least had something to do with it. He's gonna fry and good riddance BUT take a look at his trial. This guy was convicted before he stepped foot into the courtroom. Read the trial transcripts, all they convinced me of was that he was a scumbag (cheating on his wife) and he went fishing the morning she disappeared in the same bay they found the body. Now we know enough about the case to pretty much seal his guilt in America's eyes BUT if I was an impartial juror I would have had to vote Not Guilty based on what was presented in the courtroom. You cannot convict someone on what you read in the paper or because "he showed no emotion in court". If you want to be scared about convictions based on mass hysteria and the media go ahead and type the following into a search engine: McMartin Trial
Fells Acre
Kelly Michaels

Scary stuff. It gives me Nightmares. Now I know the Blake trial and especially Pederson are in another category all together then the above mentioned ritual abuse cases but we have to be careful and keep an eye out for the paranoia and mob mentality that can start to snowball and ruin people's lives. Well we are on the subject I recommend two films if you are interested in false accusation's and the wrongly convicted. They are "Indictment" starring James Woods and the Documentary "Capturing the Freidmans". For more about these films head over to my sister Blog Film Improper. Have a good weekend and be safe.