Expendable For A Cause.

This trial is a joke..

So said an infuriated and frustrated Richard Ramirez during the ridiculous charade that passed for a trial and it’s not hard to see why.

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This went to print July 30th, 1989. As the jury began it’s deliberation, casting was underway for a TV film called “Trackdown: The Anatomy of a Manhunt”. The script was finished even before the jury was selected!

I’m surprised Gil wasn’t available for comment, and didn’t return the calls, usually he’s all over it..

What a relief!

How lucky for them that Richard was found guilty, and were not required to shoot additional scenes. They had started writing the film script just after he was arrested in August 1985, already seeing a way to make money and to sensationalise a trial where media saturation had caused problems. Ramirez was, then, as now, always the vehicle for someone’s money making scheme.

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As for me, I would far rather see a film highlighting the injustice done here, highlighting the lack of evidence, the misleading of the jury by the deliberate, wrongful presentation of FOOTPRINTS, unreliable eyewitness statements, coupled with false testimony. Add to that perjury, and how fabric impressions are incapable of yielding identifiable finger prints.

Perhaps one scene could show how Ramirez got from one crime scene to another within “minutes”, according to the prosecution, when it was a distance of fourteen miles. Now that would be worth a watch!

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~ Jay ~