From: Jasper
Date: 8/17/01
Time: 7:10:56 PM
Miss Marple,
From everything I've been able to learn about O.J.'s Grand Jury - including the issue you mentioned about Fung - there is no question about it. The Grand Jury was not going to indite. Like the jury in the criminal case, they found so many things wrong with the conduct of the investigation that they couldn't trust any of the evidence. Moreover, they were asking the kinds of questions that would inevitably lead to a REAL investigation of the murders.
As you know, there was no real investigation OF THE MURDERS by the police or the prosecutors, only an investigation of O.J. for the purpose of putting him on trial. They ignored the evidence that said there was more to the story that needed to be looked at. The Grand Jury made the mistake of trying to be a real Grand Jury. They wanted to look at all of it.
Another interesting tidbit that came up during the criminal trial had to do with the mock jury used by the prosecution to prepare its case. The mock jury did the same thing the real jury did. They voted to acquit. --Jasper