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Originally Posted by RainMaker
It was a miscarriage of justice, but that's what happens when people don't trust law enforcement in a community.
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Perhaps, but it was more a case of the District Attorney's office dropping the ball that ultimately cost them a guilty verdict. I recall former LA County District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi (who prosecuted the Charles Manson clan) being livid at Clark and Darden in what he said should have been a slam dunk case. He cited numerous examples of tactical errors and evidence that they never entered which would have successfully won the case.
This was a particularly bad run for the LA County District Attorney's Office, having also recently lost several other highly publicized cases including the McMartin Preschool molestation trial, the "Twilight Zone" film accident trial, and the Rodney King trial.