On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the record, even Bill Maher did a Kardashian-on-the-Dream-Team > reference in one of his New Rules last night. A man who gained > notoriety from that trial also getting the basic facts wrong. Because > a cheap shot is always better than an accurate statement. > > Sigh. > > Kevin, I think you are making a legitimate point that there is a distinction between the rest of the so-called "Dream Team" (each of whom were very well established criminal attorneys, and in a couple of cases law professors, prior to the OJ case) and Robert Kardashian, who, while he had earned a JD, was not a practicing attorney (I believe his license to practice law had expired for years prior to his renewing it once OJ was arrested).The main reason Kardashion's membership in the Dream Team should always have an asterisk is that unlike the rest of them he was not a very good lawyer - and barely a lawyer at all. OTOH, I don't think you can draw quite the bright line you are trying to between RK and the "Dream Team". RK sat next to OJ at the defense table almost every day of that trial, read his "suicide letter" on television, carried his famous bag, and did provide input and counsel to OJ (probably not to the rest of the lawyers) during the trial - though more in his role as long time friend than as an active participant in designing the legal strategy. I think there is sufficient premise for any joke that turns on the irony of one of his daughters jumping on the Anthony Jury-bashing bandwagon. F. Lee Bailey was an overrated lawyer for most of his career (though probably the most famous when the trial started), but the rest of that team really were quite accomplished, and Scheck and Neufeld are arguably among the most important and impactful criminal defense attorneys of the 20th century (and, in my book, two of the most admirable). Dershowitz, for all of his excesses <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz>, is a leading appeals attorney, and Cochran was not the clown he was often made out to be, but a very savvy and effective advocate in the courtroom. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Neufeld> -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
