Reply #150: Is this the Court Watchers' string? [View All]

[Jersey Devil]

You can always tell which is the most interesting case in the court house by following the 'court watchers' down the hallways in the morning to see what court rooms they park themselves in. It's always the same group, mostly retired men and women who prefer live drama to anything offered up on TV and they seem to zero in on the most controversial cases as though they have radar to detect them. It seems like DU has more than its share of potential future Court Watchers.

It seems this case has the potential to be a real humdinger with Court Watchers. You have all the key ingredients: strippers, nudity, booze, drugs, spoiled rich kids, a fraternity party atmosphere, time lines (the taxi ride), sports, DNA, broomsticks (a la' Abner Louima) of course those devious, nasty lawyers (of which yours truly is proud to be one). This little tidbit about a prior rape accusation is just another juicy morsel of red meat for Court Watchers. Who can blame them? Where else can you match the drama?

Cries of "He's a liar" or "She's a liar" fill the air, something you can't do when you're in an actual court room, which probably makes it more interesting than being a regular Court Watcher because you can openly root for your side here without getting tossed out like you would in Court for jumping up and saying, "Hooha! Liar!!"

I'm not going to take sides because I know how badly the media can botch reporting of court cases and in this particular case no one has been been to court once yet except for an arraignment, so I'll wait for the actual testimony. But I do enjoy a good food fight.