That’s the title of the story. It’s an awful title and not really supported by the text but that is another rant. This rant is about a bad investigation ran by morons.
The prosecution claims that Dr. Henry Lee (really famous forensic-type guy) absconded with evidence he found at the crime scene where Phil Spector allegedly shot someone. They told this to the Judge. A reporter relays the story. Nobody seems to ask the rather obvious questions that a person really ought to ask in a situation like this. So I will ask them here.
You saw him pick up the evidence? You were standing right there and you saw him? Did you, well…ask him about it? Did you say “Hey, What did you find there?? If it’s evidence, you need to turn that over to us!” Isn’t that procedure? Did you say that? No?? Ok.
Do you really want to use the ‘incompetent’ here??? Are you trying to tell me that there was evidence on the floor of a crime scene, that was secured by uniformed officers, detectives and crime scene techs for days, that was large enough to visible with the naked eye…so much so that it shows up in a crime scene photograph…and none of your guys bagged and tagged it??? And now you are going tell me you think it was a piece of the victim’s fingernail? A Crucial piece of evidence??
Am I wrong here? Am I wrong in thinking that anyone with a brain would have found this ‘white object’ during the investigation of the crime scene? That, if it was there, it means the investigators were incompetent? And if it wasn’t, that it means the prosecution is trying to pull a fast one? Are these the best L. A has to offer?
Please tell me this not ‘business as usual’ in a crime scene investigation. I don’t expect C. S. I.-type science bullshit, but isn’t this ridiculous?
One would think that by now LA cops would learn how to deal with a high profile murder.
But do you really need evidence here? Is there one case of suicide, ever, where someone killed themselves in front of someone they knew for a total of two hours?
Well, in the prosecution’s defense, it’s not as if California juries have a reputation for convicting celebrities of murders. If they wouldn’t convict OJ, or Robert “I couldn’t have done it because I was right there with a gun” Blake, maybe the prosecution is just prosecuting for show but not putting much into it.
People take hostages and kill themselves, sometimes with and sometimes without taking the hostages with them. People pull out a gun at press conferences and blow their own heads off. So, I’d have to say yes.
Tho I don’t what anything about what Phil claims happened.
I stlll wonder what the “tooth” if it did exist would prove anyway.
Such it’s a tooth about which no one knows, I guess, we can assign magical properties to it.
It was actually the Holy Grail, it was the elusive cure to a cancers and all diseases, it was the philosopher’s stone,
it was the key to World Peace,
it was the proof that Johnson killed Kenedy,
it was the recipe for the darnest bestest chocolate brownie you ever ate!!
and why would Mr Lee/Mr Baden, apparently, they look so much alike they could be twins, hide this/deny it’s existance.
Clearly you don’t understand LA cops. They have a heavier burden than mere justice, or competence, or even civilized behavior to the citizens of LA.
They are our national police role models, via Hollywood. They are too busy consulting and script writing to read their own departmental rules, for instance. And that is Good, because they WRITE the rules by living them, and inserting them into CSI and Law & Order episodes.
In the OPs episode of real life LA Cops, what we’re seeing is a continutity problem. A prop in one scene was not in the next. The director will just have to do some re-shooting. :smack:
Nothing conclusive, but when people put a gun in their own mouth and shoot themselves they almost never shoot themselves in the teeth. They put the barrel past their teeth.
If he were trying to force the gun into her mouth and she was trying to keep it out, she would clench her teeth. Hence, if she was shot in the teeth it would be more likely that she was murdered.
I didn’t phrase that right, I should have said- no one has ever done this in front of one person only, a stranger, in private, and without obvious reason, ever.
But what I really want to know is why nobody asked why the cops didn’t collect the obvious piece of evidence if, in fact, it was there to be taken by a defense investigator. The judge didn’t ask when the prosecutors came to him with this. The reporter didn’t ask when he/she wrote the story. The editor didn’t ask??
