[Hawk44]

An incompetent prosecutor who had no case calls the jury stupid. Hello!

[dfwgator]

Unfortunately the Jacko prosecution thus far seems as incompetent, if not moreso than the Blake prosecution.

[Thebaddog]

Did he have residue on his hands after the shot was fired into the woman's head?

[marty60]

HUMMM, he has been found legally not guilty. i wonder how fast Blakes lawyers can file a defamation lawsuit.

[Huck]

The customer is always right.

[Servant of the 9]

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said jurors who acquitted actor Robert Blake of the murder of his wife are "incredibly stupid" and insisted his office had put on a good case.

That's right, blame the stupid voters that elected you.

SO9

[Gorzaloon]

An incompetent prosecutor who had no case calls the jury stupid. Hello!

I don't usually follow celebrity cases, but it looked to me like the jury did not buy the Prooscetuion's case, in part because the murder victim had a history that produced a list of suspects as large as the Manhattan Yellow Pages.

[drt1]

"Quite frankly, based on my review of the evidence, he is as guilty as sin. He is a miserable human being."

Unfortunately for the Prosecutor, the person Blake was accused of murdering was an even more miserable human being.

[Cincinatus]

In this case, he's absolutely correct. Same was true for the OJ jury, so any Los Angeles DA should prepare for the "stupid jury effect."

[Ragnorak]

What does it say about him if he can't even convince a stupid jury that he's right?

[Brilliant]

Letterman had a joke on that the other day, "Blake thanks his crack legal team, the judge, and the jury of 12 good dumbasses."

[jmq]

All I know is...........CALIFORNIA

[mhking]

What is it with incompetent Los Angeles prosecutors?

Just damn.

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[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The defense proved that the victim was a slut.

[Reform4Bush]

Their strongest evidence against him was his involvement in the 'He-Man Woman Hater's Club'.

[YOUGOTIT]

Are all these California DAs as dumb as this one and the one at the OJ trail and the one in SanFrancisco and and and on and on?

[CharacterCounts]

DA calls Blake jury "stupid"

He participated in the jury selection process.

No lawyer worth his salt blames the jury if he loses a case he thinks he should have won. He looks inward to figure out how he failed to get his message to the jury.

[Real Cynic No More]

"To criticize the jurors is unprofessional — it is unbelievable,"

Speaking of stupid...

[YOUGOTIT]

The Constitution set up trial by jury to not only find guilt or innocence but to make sure the government was not running ruff shod over its citizens. The jury needs to make sure that any law that they are told to find guilt under is Constitutional in their own mind. If not vote not guilty. There are several laws that I feel are not Constitutional and if on a jury would vote not guilty no matter what the evidence. I believe in the Constitution over all else and not the decisions of some judge.

[trebb]

So true - I believe that Blake did it, but would probably have had to come to the same conclusion the jury did. Unlike O.J.(where the jury really hosed it), there was no solid evidence. As I heard Rush say some time back, "Our legal system is designed under the precept that it is better to let an occassional guilty person off, than it is to convict an innocent man."

Of course, the system is so perverted with screwy judges and a sick society, that all bets are off.

[eno_]

Blake, 71, was accused of murdering his wife on May 4, 2001, mainly based on the word of two Hollywood stuntmen who testified the actor tried to hire them to kill her.

A betting man would say Blake did it. In a case like this, the only person to blame for failing to get a conviction is the DA, who was apperently too freakin' lazy to look for any evidence.

Moreover, a DA who thinks anyone should be convicted more or less on their say-so is a danger to the public. They deserve to lose their job.