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...Daily Variety, Laurence Gram's The Jeffrey Dahmer Case: A Judge's Perspective is in the works. And so is a film script titled The Jeffrey Dahmer Confessions, to be based on the judge's book but not written by him. "The judge doesn't want a horror picture per se," says agent Lew Breyer. "But I have written in one or two horror scenes that are horrific in describing one of the murders." While Gram says he will not pocket any profits from the book, New York University law professor Stephen Gillers points out that since judges...
...King beating case, continual repetition of the video may have dulled its initial horror for the jury. And by presenting the tape in slow motion, separated into split-second frames, the defense fractured a seamless sequence of apparent brutality into a hundred moments of uncertain meaning. Attorney Stone contended that King can be seen attempting to rise at several points. "In the hundredths of a second between this photograph and this one," Stone said of one display, "Mr. King is again coming up off the ground, and he charges Officer Powell...
Without grownups to sort out right and wrong, what is acceptable and what is not, judgments that should belong to the moral-responsible realm fall to that of sensational empathy, of momentary response. Discussion is reduced to jolts & of electric horror and freezes instantly as attitude -- as racial stereotype. Society becomes a war of videos, in which orderly brainwork, any reasoning over rights and wrongs, is impossible. Cosby gave way on American television screens to endlessly reduplicated, hall-of-mirrors replays of the Rodney King video and the truck-driver video: the truck-driver video being the one shot from...
...RODNEY KING case seemed so simple. A man was viciously beaten by police officers. Somebody even taped the horror, which was shown thousands of times to television viewers around the country. The officers were put on trial--but somehow, a jury decided that they were not guilty of using excessive force...
...hard to envision a seriously short guy who sounds like a Chihuahua as a charismatic threat to democracy, but it is delicious to watch the thrills of horror running through the Establishment at the mere thought...