Raj Feridun wrote:

> as Findlaw duly notes:
>
> "To permit a second trial after an acquittal, however mistaken the
> acquittal may have been, would present an unacceptably high risk that
> the Government, with its vastly superior resources, might wear down
> the defendant so that 'even though innocent he may be found
> guilty.'''"
>
> How do you get around THAT?

By knowing the actual truth. A million dollars of tax money used at each of ten trials will not outdo
the wrong DNA being found on a woman's body, or the simple fact the accused was somewhere else unable
to commit the crime. It is too bad that OJ took 20 minutes to reply to the driver sent to pick him up
and that his flight was not scheduled considerably earlier with him on it, for he could have avoided
his trouble. Also note that the prosecution is free to appeal rulings it disagrees with, even GUILTY
verdicts, in Japan where we happen to live.

If this is such a concern of yours, note that this is already true of a single trial, which is why
many underprivileged never have the "chance" that OJ had, as I have pointed out. I do not believe
that blacks are so many times more criminal than whites, or that blacks generally commit more serious
crimes than whites

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

"At midyear 2003 there were 4,834 black male prisoners per 100,000 black males in the United States
in prison or jail, compared to 1,778 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 681 white
male inmates per 100,000 white males."

Also

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-01.htm

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Nationwide, blacks are incarcerated at 8.2 times the rate of whites. That is, a black person is 8.2
times more likely to be in prison than a white person. Among individual states, there are even more
extraordinary racial disparities in incarceration rates (Figure 3). In seven states -- Connecticut,
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin -- blacks are incarcerated at more
than 13 times the rate of whites. Minnesota has by far the highest disparity -- blacks in that state
are incarcerated at 23 times the rate of whites. In the District of Columbia, blacks are incarcerated
at 34 times the rate of whites. Even in Hawaii and Vermont, the states with the smallest racial
disparities in incarceration rates, blacks are still incarcerated at more than twice the rate of
whites.26

Blacks are incarcerated nationally at a rate of 1,547 per 100,000 black residents. In some states,
the black rate of incarceration reaches extraordinary levels (Table 3). In Alaska, Arizona,
Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia,
blacks are incarcerated at rates that exceed 2,000 per 100,000. The lowest incarceration rate for
blacks, 570 in North Dakota, exceeds the highest rate for whites, 440 in Arizona.

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Would you be satisfied if the public defender had equal resources to the prosecution?

Judge Friendly has found "Most Americans would allow a considerable number of guilty persons to go
free than to convict any appreciable number of innocent men." 23