{"id":8634,"date":"2013-07-17T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/17\/mark-omara-as-atticus-finch\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:36:00","slug":"mark-omara-as-atticus-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/17\/mark-omara-as-atticus-finch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark O’Mara as Atticus Finch"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is good<\/a>.  By Peter Machera, former<\/em> professor of English at New Mexico State University.  The 'former' comports well with the intelligence and honesty of the piece which ends thusly:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s almost startling to see individuals on television who are intelligent,  articulate and fight for a worthy cause. We have plenty of smart people  deceiving the public, but not much of the sort who actually speak truth to  power, and this is what the O\u2019Mara-West defense team represents, considering the  power structures they were up against.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, the jury made the only sensible decision. However, speaking on  \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d the Rev. Al Sharpton reminds us ominously that the advocates  for Trayvon<\/a> have not \u201cexhausted their  legal options.\u201d One can just hope that Mr.  O'Mara<\/a> and Mr. West<\/a> will continue to play  the virtuous lawyers against the cynical \u2014 and significant \u2014 political forces  that oppose them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is what I said about O'Mara a few days ago:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The state had no case whatsoever as became very clear early on from the testimony of the state's own witnesses.  Objectively speaking, it was all over after John Good's cross-examination by the magnificent Mark O'Mara.  He impressed the hell out of me: calm, clear, respectful, logical, thorough, low-keyed, bluster-free.  A patient, relentless, digger for the truth.  Good was impressive as well. That segment of the trial made me very proud of our system.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is good.  By Peter Machera, former professor of English at New Mexico State University.  The 'former' comports well with the intelligence and honesty of the piece which ends thusly: It\u2019s almost startling to see individuals on television who are intelligent,  articulate and fight for a worthy cause. We have plenty of smart people  deceiving … Continue reading “Mark O’Mara as Atticus Finch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}