Skakel verdict a sham
This is very bizarre, to convict someone now for a crime allegedly committed in 1975. Are we going to also find and convict culprits now for the great train robberies of 1900? Why not punish the descendants of slave owners while we're at it?
When you think that the only incriminating evidence were statements made by the culprit, and no external proof of guilt was established, it puts in cause the very judicial process. If I said that under similar circumstances I might have attacked someone or that I might have committed some crime because I felt like doing it, does that make me an actual criminal? That's a messed up system if it finds guilt based one's private statements but it cannot establish guilt based on physical proof, because of other technicalities (like in the case of OJ). The most complex penal code in the world still fails to punish more than 90% of the real world criminals!
When you think that the only incriminating evidence were statements made by the culprit, and no external proof of guilt was established, it puts in cause the very judicial process. If I said that under similar circumstances I might have attacked someone or that I might have committed some crime because I felt like doing it, does that make me an actual criminal? That's a messed up system if it finds guilt based one's private statements but it cannot establish guilt based on physical proof, because of other technicalities (like in the case of OJ). The most complex penal code in the world still fails to punish more than 90% of the real world criminals!