Excuse me, but this is nothing like the OJ case. That was cold-blooded murder of two innocent people.

Here's the other difference: OJ had a history of domestic abuse which made the papers regularly enough that I was aware of it living in Idaho. (Full disclosure: I wa working at a shelter for victims of domestic violence, but it was in the national press not some secret internal report.) When I saw the little, little headline that first morning on CNN -- OJ's wife found dead -- my first reaction was that he was involved.

Kobe's reputation was squeaky clean and few people thought him guilty when the news broke.

Even now, the split in public opinion does not seem to lie along racial lines.

Golly, what's with LA Observer and the attention it puts on this Dunphy guy? Dunphy is a moron. OJ was a double homicide with the possibility of the death penalty. Kobe, while I'm not belittling rape, is charged with a much lesser crime. OJ happened in media central LA, where not only the media but the population was interested. Eagle, CO seems to care less. Actually, I'd bet that the world outside SoCal could care less. Another NBA star, another rape/gun/drug/etc. charge - The general populace: . Why does Dunphy pick Kobe? Was Mike Tyson like OJ? What about Allen Iverson? How abouy Jayson Williams? Somehow Kobe becomes the new OJ in Dunphy's stupid world. All Dunphy sees is a black athelete in court and he strings OJ & Kobe together. What a jackass.

Hmm, jackass he may be, but I don't think he in any way compared the crimes. His point as I took it was simply that the media circus around the Kobe trial (if there is one) will be similar to what we all remember from the OJ trial (though much, much shorter no doubt). And I think he's dead on about that. Not as horrendous a crime, but a more current celebrity -- and this story has sex going for it, or against it.

It's L.A. Observed (with a D) by the way.

Actually, I think Joe's the Jackass. Dunphy provides an insider's perspective on a calloused, numb world that many criticize, few understand, and even fewer would dare attempt to live in. Oh, and he's pretty a pretty damned good wordsmith, too.

Obeserve*d*. Apologies, the r and the d fall so close together. and my "shrug" tag disappeared after populace. whoops.

What exactly is it about being a cop that qualifies Dunphy as an "insider" to the Kobe case?

-Jackass with a capital J

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