F. Lee Bailey - CROSS-EXAMINES witness

He put on a legal clinic during the OJ Simpson murder trial in '95. A mountain of evidence was stacked against Simpson, but the defense obscured the facts, played with words, and out-lawyered the DA's office.

Simpson was a jealous ex-husband who had beat his wife before. His blood was found at the crime scene. The only other blood there was from the two knifed murder victims. The blood of both victims was also found in OJ's car and home. The limo driver, who took OJ to the airport that night for his alibi, said OJ seemed hot and nervous and guarded a backpack that was later missing. Why did it vanish in two days unless he threw it out at the airport? That explains why no murder weapon or bloody clothes were ever found. Also, his footprints, in a very rare size 12 Bruno Magli shoes, were also at the crime scene. The shoes vanished after the crime as well. He also had a bad cut on his left hand two days after the murders, but said he didn't know how he cut it, and then changed it to he cut it on his cellphone. It was a very deep cut and his cellphone had smooth edges. His blood at the scene was also to the left of his shoe prints, perfectly consistent with his left hand bleeding at the scene.

Verdict: NOT guilty, of course. That's the US jury system, where rhetoric beats facts, just as in politics.

Best book on the OJ trial?
-"Outrage" by Vincent Bugliosi, the author of "Helter Skelter."

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[BigFreeze83]

I like around the 2:40 mark where Bailey says, "Oh, you didn't say that? Pardon me...WASN'T THE EVIDENCE STARING YOU IN THE FACE!?"

F. Lee Bailey is scary on cross.

[itschip378]

@BigFreeze83 Bailey let it go rather than have the reporter read back his testimony. Bailey was right. He said it didn't seem "likely." I also like it when Bailey says, "Then if the killer wasn't a dog..." And when he pounded the table. Also how he breaks the rules of cross exam taught in law school. They say never to let the witness explain with a "how" question on cross, but to ask leading questions only. After 3:18, he asked "how." Like Burger King, he knew when to break the rules.

[rjplamf61]

I was hanging out with my drinking cronies yesterday and we started to talk about this trial. I was going off on a rant about all the fuck ups that the prosecution made. It was like a stand up comedy act. I was in a zone mimicking OJ trying to put the glove on and immitating F Lee Baily when he asked Furhman if he ever used the N word. The whole bar was laughing there ass off. I think I should take my act on the road and start a new career as a stand up comic. You can't make this shit up.

[itschip378]

@rjplamf61 In "Outrage," Bugliosi explained the DA's blunders well. Marcia Clark was a legal error machine. So many frivolous objections by her too. Ito should have muzzled her nonsense.

[AroundSun]

@itschip378 Bugliosi would have put simpson away, even with this jury

[itschip378]

@AroundSun Yeah, too bad we missed the dream team in a fair fight vs. Bugliosi. Darden and Clark were picked for the race and gender. I hate political correctness and affirmative action. It makes people feel morally superior while doing an injustice. The people of the state of California were the party against OJ! And Gil Garcetti picked two lightweights. But one had a tan and one had a skirt, so that was good enough for him. He CARES so much. He failed to deliver justice! Liberals suck.

[librazone]

Anyone who thought that the jury would side with a pretty blond white girl ...please give your head a shake.

[AntonBatey]

Bailey: Have you ever read that section of the police manual?

Cop: Probably, but I don’t remember how long it’s been. But yes, I probably have. I read the entire manual when I was studying for sergeant…

Bailey: But you don’t NOW recall what’s even in it?

LOL, owned!

[AntonBatey]

“All footprints can be seen with the naked eye?”

“If they’re visible they can be”

LOL!!! What a DUMB cop!! No wonder O.J. got off.

[79Testo]

@itschip378

Even if Baily asks a "how" question, he already knows the answer to it.

The man is a pro!

[79Testo]

@itschip378

From 7:53 and on, F.Lee Bailey shows what a cross examination is all about. You can see Marcia Clark getting irritated and she cannot object cause those are really pointed questions that are pinning Fuhrman down, in regards to not questioning the next door made. All Chris Darden and Marcia can do is watch their most important witness going down little by little.

[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

@itschip378 Well, a liberal got O.J. off (i.e. Dershowitz), so they don't all suck.

[standrick]

OWNED!!! U maaaad

[Marco112578]

LAPD owned!!!!!!!!

[Blessed3175]

Love it. Living legend and genius. He embarrassed them ha, ha. The prosecution in this case was in waaaay over their heads. They had nothing for the Dream Team.