tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post7505639592286131515..comments2024-01-02T10:09:58.744-08:00Comments on Preaching to the choir: Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12429147325673256508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-17653423858988945962011-12-04T13:48:31.368-08:002011-12-04T13:48:31.368-08:00So, what's the lesson from the Scott Peterson ...So, what's the lesson from the Scott Peterson trial, where the defendant's family borrowed heavily to finance a failed defense which could not compete with the state's spending?<br /><br />* 20,000 hours of police time without finding anything at all - except one hair and some spilled cement.<br />* 20,000 hours of prosecutor time and yet we saw a prosecutor who needed to be rescued part way through the trial.<br />* $1 million spent to prove that the deceased wasn't where the state desperately needed her to be.<br />* $11 million total spent to convince a jury -- which deliberated 5 months of testimony in 6 hours.<br /><br />My lesson was spend the money on investigators and on good scientific analysts who can find all of the flaws in the case and educate the defense on how to exploit them.<br /><br />Yours?A Voice of Sanityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285284153694191831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-25869841909724734912011-10-31T10:41:49.760-07:002011-10-31T10:41:49.760-07:00The idea comes from reports of the staggering amou...The idea comes from <a href="http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty" rel="nofollow">reports of the staggering amounts of money that are spent on executions</a> which are sometimes circulated by abolition advocates. The unstated assumption that the abolition advocates seem happy to allow people to believe is that all that money is being spent on lawyers, using the lawyers as whipping boys.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.com