From: Jasper
Date: 5/27/02
Time: 7:11:23 AM
Jean and Charlie,
Last Thursday was the final day of testimony in our lawsuit against Ford. It was the last day of ten years of hell. The arbitrator probably won't make his decision for another month and it will take a while for my fellow plaintiff and me to recover from the ordeal no matter which way it goes.
Ford succeeded in robbing us of a jury trial and narrowing the parameters of the contest to exclude over 90 percent of the evidence. We could present only three witnesses from a list of well over a hundred. Several hundred hours of testimony was reduced to thirty. Ford succeeded in changing the rules of the game as they went along right down to the last day before the hearing and in making sure there were no records of the prior proceedings.
In short, the arbitrator had few dots he could connect to draw a picture of the truth because Ford had erased over 90 percent of the dots before he got to hear the case.
Do I think we're screwed?
No, I don't.
In the end, no matter how limited we were in presenting our case, 100 percent of it was the truth. Ford was forced to present bogus documents and witnesses who lied under oath. I don't think that Ford's lies hurt us at all because they couldn't lie about everything and their lies just didn't fit the facts. In other words, we alleged that Ford lied and Ford proved it.
The O.J. Simpson case is nowhere near that extreme in terms of limited evidence and outright lies. If anything, we have too much evidence. But we know a hell of a lot because we know in enough cases who lied and who told the truth simply by the laws of time and space that draw a tight circle around the truth and expose a lie for what it is. --Jasper