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From: Jasper
Date: 2/25/02
Time: 4:06:59 PM
Fellow Smartfellows,
I think you'll agree that each month we all learn something new about the O.J. case. I think that you will also agree that some important things get lost or misinterpreted depending on which strings we pick up, where we pick them up and where we go from there.
For example: I posted a message a few days ago in which I erroneously stated that Patty Goldman was once married to Joey Ippolito. Kari corrected that portion of my message in a subsequent post and I thanked her for the correction in my reply to her. Later on someone else discovered the same error and posted it below the original message or the one following the second correction or the one after that. As a result I'm afraid that the significance of what I got right in the original post got lost in that one error and we never got back to it.
Fortunately, this was an easy error to spot. I was trying to draw the Mob connection between the Goldman's, the cocaine trade in Brentwood and the murders and left out some important iterations that ended up attaching Patty Goldman to the wrong mobster. The point was simply that the police and prosecutors were not about to delve too deeply into the drug connection between A.C. and prominent figures in the drug trade because the web of connections did not stop at O.J. and Nicole. It extended to Denise Brown, Faye Resnick, Ron Goldman, Patty Goldman, Ron Shipp and a former narcotics cop named Mark Fuhrman.
Unfortunately, other errors are not so easy to spot and they get carried over in our thinking about what the facts in the case actually are and how they figure into our thinking.
I propose that we set aside a thread every month devoted exclusively to the facts. Let's call the subject The Facts with subheadings for each item. For example: The Facts/The Knit Cap or The Facts/The Denim Jacket. This way we'll always have a place to go where we can sort out good information from bad information and areas of legitimate dispute. It's bound to be a little messy at first. But as we go along we ought to be able to clean up the process along with our thinking about a lot of things without a lot of disjointed repetition that takes us in circles.
What do you think? --Jasper