TGIF with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• Senator Larry Craig’s lawyers were in court on Wednesday asking to void the guilty plea stemming from the infamous toilet stall arrest. Wish these guys would piss or get off the pot.
• Kanye West and his road manager were busted for busting the cameras of paparazzi at LAX. Part of the confrontation was videotaped by a TMZ videographer. There’s gotta be a concept for a Kodak or Sony spot here.
• Snoop Dogg was granted a visa to visit Australia for a concert tour, despite initial reservations from the country’s immigration department. Australian paparazzi are encouraged to carry extra cameras.
• O.J. Simpson will face an all-White jury for his trial after defense lawyers failed in their efforts to put two Black women on the panel. No paparazzi problems to report yet.
Sounds to me like the Juice's legal team is already misplaying things. It's not like this jury was forced upon them. Defense always gets more strikes when it comes to jury selection; while I'm not sure of the exact number of strikes for Nevada, the court gives the defense more strikes than the prosecution.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nonstory.
Of course, the media will hype it into some racial news-orgy and stir OJ supporters (all three of them)into a frenzy. If there's any racial story here, it's the fact that the defense tends to strike a disproportionately larger number of white jurors than black jurors because the stereotype is that blacks are softer on crime.