It is as just as other rich people getting off from heinous crimes because of their high priced lawyers. Just recently Roman Polanski was finally arrested by Swiss Police despite having pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. He still managed to produce The Pianist in 2002, winning an academy award and several other awards and still not fully servicing his sentence.

Lindsay Lohan, after getting arrested for multiple DUIs and cocaine use spent 84 minutes in jail (17 minutes shorter than the length of Herbie: Fully Loaded). Although she paid fines and plead guilty, and that should reduce her sentence, the fact she had good lawyers had to have played a part in her sentencing.

This trial was as much a mockery as the other trials, but was in a way a step in the right direction for judicial proceedings - that a rich african american man could be tried and let go in the same way as a rich caucasian man.
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