Remember Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber who blew up an eight-year-old?\u00a0 Remember John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper, who used random shoppers for target practice?\u00a0 Remember Zacarias Moussaoui, the Jihadist 20th hijacker on 9-11?\u00a0 There was no credible doubt about either their factual guilt when they were arrested or about the mind-bending hideousness of their crimes. But what did the defense bar, finger as ever in the air, tell us then?<\/p>\n
“The presumption of innocence is the cornerstone of our system.”\u00a0 “Take a deep breath and wait for all the facts to come out.”\u00a0 “Don’t rush to judgment.”\u00a0 “We don’t know what the prosecution is hiding.”\u00a0 “The DA wants to tack another scalp to his wall for political gain.”\u00a0 “Even the most despised defendant deserves fair play.”\u00a0 Etcetera.<\/p>\n
Question:\u00a0 Have you heard any of that about Derek Chauvin, who now is certainly the most despised defendant in America?\u00a0 I sure haven’t.\u00a0 Next question:\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Well, one might speculate that Chauvin is identified with the true Untouchable Caste in this country\u00a0 —\u00a0 no, not a child killer or a gleeful mass murderer.\u00a0 A former cop.\u00a0 No wonder the defense bar is on vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Remember Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber who blew up an eight-year-old?\u00a0 Remember John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper, who used random shoppers for target practice?\u00a0 Remember Zacarias Moussaoui, the Jihadist 20th hijacker on 9-11?\u00a0 There was no credible doubt about either their factual guilt when they were arrested or about the mind-bending hideousness of their crimes. But what did the defense bar, finger as ever in the air, tell us then? “The presumption of innocence is the cornerstone of our system.”\u00a0 “Take a deep breath and wait for all the facts to come out.”\u00a0 “Don’t rush to judgment.”\u00a0 “We don’t know what the prosecution is hiding.”\u00a0 “The DA wants to tack another scalp to his wall for political gain.”\u00a0 “Even the most despised defendant deserves fair play.”\u00a0 Etcetera. Question:\u00a0 Have you heard any of that about Derek Chauvin, who now is certainly the most despised defendant in America?\u00a0 I sure haven’t.\u00a0 Next question:\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Well, one might speculate that Chauvin is identified with the true Untouchable Caste in this country\u00a0 —\u00a0 no, not a child killer or a gleeful mass murderer.\u00a0 A former cop.\u00a0 No wonder the defense bar is on vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notorious-cases"],"yoast_head":"\n