This is what we are all are familiar with: the simple traffic ticket violation, to the high profile cases that are spread across the evening news (Ok, maybe most ticket violations arn't on the news, but they sure would be if viewers wouldn't turn it over when they came on). It is what makes up the courts and what keeps the public in check with the laws.

It has served its uses well in the past. With Mr. Juice, the state's whole case was based on circumstantial evidence. The bloody glove didn't fit, but shrunk in the wash; Mr. OJ was at the crime scene, yet no one saw him there. Wow, good case if I'm a prosecutor. A mixed jury acquited him of the crime, yet because a bunch of people still thought he did it, he was pretty much tried again for the same crime and found liable. Amazing!

Now, McVeigh. This poor veteran of the Gulf War is put on trial for a very horrible crime. This trial was similar to that of the first OJ case except the length and verdict. McVeigh perchased the stuff to make the bomb, yet the clerk was not totally sure it was hime. McVeigh drove the Rider truck in front of the Federal Building, yet again a witness said that it was someone that didn't even look like McVeigh that steped out of the truck. Neat!

This is all amazing. Money shows the holes, and public opinion drives conviction.

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