RUSH TO JUDGMENT OR DELAY IN JUSTICE?

 

Two months into the OJ Simpson trial

The jury's seen but surface evidence

On whether the star was murderously involved

In bloody deaths of Ronald and Nicole

In Rush to Judgment or Delay in Justice?

 

Ten months past the gruesome summer murders

The trial's become a nation's entertainment

See OJ and his string of high-priced lawyers

Flout the laws of Discovery, O wonder!

Delay in Justice or in Rush to Judgment?

 

The Prosecution struggles against this might

Bill Hodgeman falls, rage contorting his face

Chris Darden hangs his head Achilles-like

Would he apologize to Court or fight?

In Rush to Judgment or Delay in Justice?

 

Defense dwells on what-might-have-been clues:

Burning candles' height, a stomach's content

Ice cream's melt rate, redialing phone's review

A water's chill, O why weren't they pursued?

Delay in Justice or in Rush to Judgment?

 

Dropped in the muddle, a sidebar of ten days' extent

For Rosa Lopez who heard some voices or noises

The next door maid who saw the Bronco but when?

A witness the jury may see or not, it depends . . .

In Rush to Judgment or Delay in Justice?

 

Presiding over all the owl-like Ito

Of sand clocks, lap tops and justice, a goateed blend

Clark and Cochran's crying towel and veto

Whose deliberations slow things or seem to

Delay in Justice or in Rush to Judgment?

 

The Public meanwhile has its attention wrenched

Stops and starts deter a verdict's promise

Who see Him guilty and not behind lines entrenched

Is Truth found in what the Public's evidenced?

In Rush to Judgment or Delay in Justice?

 

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