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LOOK AT ME, EVERYONE! YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME BEFORE? I'm gonna be another Rudy Giuliani. I'm gonna be FAMOUS. The fighting D.A. I could become MAYOR. Maybe even GOVERNOR of PENNSYLVANIA. How about PRESIDENT? LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!
Kevin Steele took a case that the previous D.A. refused to prosecute, a case that was ten years stale, that involved someone who already settled a civil complaint that was sealed...and brought it back into the spotlight. It was a spotlight he hogged.
And now that he LOST, because NOT proving your case is a LOSS, this guy has vowed to have a retrial.
A RETRIAL?
Camille Cosby this morning: “How do I describe the district attorney? Heinously and exploitively ambitious." She added, “How do I describe the judge? Overtly arrogant in collaborating with the district attorney.”
Remember, this case was SETTLED TEN YEARS AGO. You don't have to be married to Bill Cosby, or even be a fan of Cosby, to agree with "exploitively ambitious."
Many believe Cosby is guilty of abuses against women, just as Capone was guilty, just as O.J. was guilty. They got Capone on tax evasion. They got Simpson for making threats on somebody who apparently was illegally selling some of his memorabilia. People cheered that Capone and Simpson got jail time somehow. But can one cheer if the charge is trumped up, and a mockery of the law? Can anyone be delighted when a district attorney and a judge simply push and kick logic and integrity to the dirt in order to become famous for a witch hunt? Trying a case that was already settled is bad enough, but to demand a retrial?
Retrial is usually for a dire murder case, and even then, it doesn't always happen.
There are dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of cases where there was no retrial and the offense was not digital penetration ten years ago, but murder. Maiming. Arson. And the evidence was fresh and clear.
"Exploitively ambitious?" That seems to describe Kevin Steele. It doesn't describe other prosecutors. Where was the prosecutor to demand a trial and prison time for an actual rapist who, no question about it, committed a crime? There was no "he said she said," no waiting around ten years to make a charge already settled.
Literally ON THE SAME page as the news of the Cosby deadlock, was a report on a judge who allowed a rapist to go free with probation. No trial.
Look to the right. Yes, the same day the news on Cosby was printed, there was the case of a PRISON GUARD who sexually attacked a defenseless inmate. He just pulled her into a closet (out of view of surveillance cameras) and attacked her.
Did she wait ten years to tell her story? Did she suffer in silence thinking nobody would believe her? She mailed her shirt, with the DNA evidence on it, to someone she trusted. She proved this was not consensual. No question it happened. And because the guard was not a celebrity, and there was no district attorney looking to make a name for himself, the case was routinely settled, and without jail time.
Read the headline. The Rikers guard ADMITTED to rape. It wasn't a fuzzy case involving he-said she-said from ten years ago, or blurry deposition information in which the man claimed the woman had an orgasm and enjoyed his advances. Here, a news story the same day as the Cosby trial verdict, is a case of rape that did not involve any trial and no jail time.
In the original Cosby case ten years ago, the District Attorney didn't see enough beyond "he said she said" for a trial. The case was about a man and woman alone, and when a romantic situation may have led to unwanted advances.
The situation was eventually settled in civil court, and the documents sealed. Case closed. Somehow, sealed court documents aren't SEALED if the media doesn't want them sealed, and somehow, a vain, fame-crazed District Attorney wanting to get recognition, can find a hanging judge to go along with the farce of trying a case ten years after it was settled.
There isn't enough crime in Philadelphia to keep this guy busy? Violent rape? Heinous murder? No? There was all the time in the world to play games with jury selection and venue location and all the rest of it on the tax payers dime-dollar-thousands-and-thousands of dollars?
Everyone knows who KEVIN STEELE is, the great fighter for justice, the next Rudy Giuliani. Everyone knows the allegations against Cosby, which caused his last concerts to be canceled. Everyone knows there are still a few women who are mounting civil lawsuits against him that could give them money but will certainly remind people of his damaged reputation. And everyone knows that Bill Cosby walks with a cane, is a figure of scandal and doubt, and will very likely never work again. Retrial? NO.
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