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She is incredibly overrated. Like Johnny Cochran - she seized the publicity from a very flawed, atypical courtroom result (in her case the first Menendez trial), and has run with it, despite the fact that a close inspection of what she did during that trial does not recommend her.

She presented a number of Polaroid photos (essentially a mosaic image) during the first Menendez trial – showing the torso and legs of a boy in the bathtub of the Menendez home. It was entered into evidence to show that Jose Menendez had a prurient interest in his own son, to buttress the defense claim that he abused the boys. The photos did not show the child’s face and were clearly of a young boy. At no time was there authentication of the photos – Abramson entered exhibits which were large blow ups of the photos, but not the Polaroid photos themselves. I smelled a rat when I saw this on Court TV in real time – these photos could have been faked using a young boy and the access that the defense had to the house before the trial. As these enlarged photos were being entered into evidence – no one on the prosecution side asked to see the originals, or to examine the serial number (production lot number) which was stamped n the back of Polaroid film at that time. Had they done so – something tells me that the sequence and production date of the film wouldn’t have synched with the time frame allegedly portrayed in the photos.

She’s not nearly as good as her image suggests. Good luck Phil Spector – you’re going to need it.