30 for 30 running thread

All very good points, Stoney.

 

Tribble was on the radio with Scott Van Pelt. SVP asked him who supplied the drugs that night, and Tribble's response was something like "It wouldn't be right for me to answer that because Len's not here to defend himself." Seemed like a fairly chickenshit answer.

 

This is just me thinking, but it occurred to me that someone may have given Bias the stuff on Draft Night in order to ingratiate.

 

Yeah, probably David Stern.

 

That's what I kept thinking while I was watching the documentary, which was otherwise really good. Len Bias was way before my time, so I was interested, but if they got into who got him the cocaine, I missed it, and they also seemed to gloss over his past usage.

 

I'm guessing Tribble's lawyers advised him not to discuss where the cocaine came from, lest some grandstanding DA try to bring murder charges 23 years after the fact ...

 

Ever hear of double jeopardy? They already tried Tribble on charges related to Bias' death and a jury acquitted him. But that doesn't mean he wasn't guilty. I think it's a fairly safe assumption that the coke came from Tribble. He was the only coke dealer there.

 

I've heard of double jeopardy, but wouldn't an on-camera admission qualify as "new evidence?"

 

Also, doesn't double jeopardy also mean you can't try someone on the same charge? If it's the same crime, but a different charge, you can do that, right?

 

"New evidence" will not allow you to get around the double jeopardy rule. If OJ Simpson confessed on camera tomorrow, there's not a damn thing the LA criminal justice system could do about it. Same goes for Tribble.

And, Bob, as I recall, they could not get around it by altering the charges IF the new charges were based upon the same acts/conduct that he was tried for the first time. If the state could've included the charges in the first trial, then it doesn't get another bite at the apple for its neglect. The rule is pretty much absolute: once you've been acquitted by a sovereign of criminal charges, it can never charge you again for alleged crimes resulting from that act.

And, besides that, the statute of limitations has surely expired on every applicable charge (short of murder) anyways. It's safe to say that Tribble is legally home free on the Bias stuff.

 

Mushnick calls Jimmy the Greek doc 'superb.'

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/jimmy_fired_jay_embraced_for_similar_piyiiTVeVbO6t9RAmFNwAP

 

This is one I've been looking forward to the most.