Criminal Minds

In a recent conversation with my partner, "The Crim-Maven", we found ourselves in complete disagreement about the highly visible cases of celebrity criminals in the news. My partner, the expert in all that is criminal explains to me that the Paris Hilton's of the world are getting the same treatment that many other incarcerated women are getting in that the sheriff was well within his rights to let her go early for "the nonviolent" offense. In a previous blog you all of course read about my views on that subject so I won't repeat it here. Now, I am aghast at the resurrection of OJ and the dead lock in the Phil Spector case.

Is it that the juries in California are so completely different than those here in NY? Of course we all know that when a case goes to a jury it is tantamount to rolling the dice in a Vegas casino, but does the craziness have any bounds?

How can a jury not convict that nut Spector? Did they recycle the OJ jury and use them again?? Is it that the rich have better lawyers than the common criminals here in NY? I don't think so, I saw some of the Spector trial and was not impressed with his legal representation. I really thought this case was a slam dunk. But then again I thought the same about OJ. Well as my partner says, I will stick with the divorce cases and leave the criminal minds to him....