Barrett-Jackson Lawsuit

[GRB]

After watching an innocent man go to prison last night (Dateline) for defending his life against a hot-headed psycho, I'm not sure I would trust a judge and jury to make a proper decision no matter what the facts may be.

Nowadays you are far better off to just keep your mouth shut and don't make waves. Our judicial system is totally out of control...a lot like our government!

[BUIZILLA]

this is an interesting turn of unprecedented proportions...

MY opinion is, that BJ did this to head off any future hot-heads, that ain't happy with their sale outcomes... since BJ highlined Ford's this year, other marquee's suffered... A smart seller will find out FIRST which car brand is highlighted next year as soon as possible, and make a prudent decision if his car make will benefit or suffer. With that said, it would behoove BJ to NOT highlight any particular brand, so as to be fair to all sellers, which is the correct non-political way to represent any seller of any product, whether it be cars or furniture.. this is what establishes credibility among other auction's.

I also believe neither side has merit for *trial substance*, and it will go to arbitration, where the only winners will be either sides counsel.

JH

[Les Quam]

Our American criminal justice system is totally overwhelmed due to the volume and lack of resources to handle the volume. As a result mistakes although rare can happen. The vast amount of mistakes in the American criminal justice system happen to the VICTIMS of crime not the defendants ,in that due to lack of police resources and adequate training the criminals don't get prosecuted. This problem is not as exciting for a dateline episode and police and prosecutors don't like to talk about it so it doesn't get the media attention.

Everyone in prison is innocent all you have to do is ask them.

[GRB]

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Our American criminal justice system is totally overwhelmed due to the volume and lack of resources to handle the volume. As a result mistakes although rare can happen. The vast amount of mistakes in the American criminal justice system happen to the VICTIMS of crime not the defendants ,in that due to lack of police resources and adequate training the criminals don't get prosecuted. This problem is not as exciting for a dateline episode and police and prosecutors don't like to talk about it so it doesn't get the media attention.

Everyone in prison is innocent all you have to do is ask them.

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Mistakes are understandable. An over-zealous prosecuting attorney coupled with judge AND a (activist) jury nullification is a miscarriage of justice that should result in extreme civil unrest and eventual justice! When a judge and jury ignore the facts in order to make a political statement that clearly violates OUR constitution it is time for decent law abiding Americans to demand not just an appeal but a reversal and recriminations. That trial is an American outrage and the "real" guilty should be punished.

[kwhizz]

I think the degridation of the system accelerated with the Flying DNA in O.J.'s trial.........the lawyers at that point found out that they could say and do almost anything and sometimes it sticks...........Sad!!!

Ken

[nuch_ss396]

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I think the degridation of the system accelerated with the Flying DNA in O.J.'s trial.........the lawyers at that point found out that they could say and do almost anything and sometimes it sticks...........Sad!!!

Ken

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Well Ken,

I agree. It also didn't hurt having a less than worthy
jury and a whole bank of attorneys willing to exploit that
worthiness. However, at least one of the "dream team" is
gone now and hopefully paying his dues for knowingly
getting off a double murderer, all in the sake of money &
celebrity.

[Mr70]

It seems to me the minute you allow a nationally televised camera into a somewhat private venue,you put logic,common sense and level headedness right out on it's ear and let egos take precedent.
Just ask Judge Ito,Judge Seidlin,and now Judge Clabuesch.
Dana Mecum would be wise to deny any kind of national TV coverage in the future.
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One genuine American Rabbit's Foot..
One genuine American Hara Kiri knife...

[Les Quam]

There are many things that could be improved with our criminal justice system. OJs trial didn't change or accelerate anything. I was a prosecutor in Vegas at the time of OJs trial and correctly predicted very early in OJs trial that he would be acquitted because as a prosecutor I could see the case was being grossly mishandled by the prosecutors trying OJs case.

OJs defense attorneys did what they were paid to do. They did their jobs. If everyone else had done their jobs properly OJ would be in prison. The OJ jury was overwhelmed due to prosecutor incomptetence and it was an exceedingly simple case. I have presented DNA evidence to a jury many times and even I was confused after watching the DNA evidence as it was presented in the OJ case.

Our country went all the way to the middle east looking for a war. All we had to do was look outside to our city streets and we could have found a war. Last year over 12,000 people were murdered in this country. Imagine if we as a country had invested five years and billions of dollars to fight the war on crime here on America's streets?

In five years we lost over 3000 brave soldiers in the middle east. I wonder how many of those 12,000 murder victims we could have saved if we had fought the American war on crime instead of the war in Iraq.