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Just a little over three weeks after the Imette St. Guillen trial began, it is now in the hands of jurors who will decide the fate of Darryl Littlejohn for sexually assaulting and murdering the graduate student from Boston. In closing arguments yesterday, Littlejohn's defense lawyer Joyce David accused police of a conspiracy to protect his boss, bar manager Danny Dorrian, whose brother-in-law was an adviser to Rudy Giuliani. David said, "Darryl Littlejohn was the solution to all their problems: solving the city's biggest crime at the time, protecting Danny Dorrian and protecting Rudy Giuliani from another scandal while he was running for President." David said St. Guillen and Dorrian could have had "a weird bondage thing." Prosecutor Kenneth Taub responded to the vague allegations by calling them "the rankest kind of speculation" and said there is "a mountain of evidence" against Littlejohn. Update: After six hours of deliberation, the jury has found Littlejohn guilty of rape and first-degree murder.
Littlejohn Defense Suggests Giuliani-Linked Coverup in Closing
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Toast. Toast, mother f**ker.
I always wonder about a defense lawyer like Joyce who uses her skills to try and get a guy like Littlejohn off, whom she knows better than anyone is guilty. Its one thing to hold the prosecutors and cops to high standards, thats fine, but spinning fantasies in hopes of conning one juror? How does she sleep?
Seriously. I'm all for a vigilant and competent defense, but throwing out spurious allegations about the victim (a weird bondage thing? I mean, REALLY.) is just gross, cruel and insulting to the victim and her family.
A quick google search shows she was a Court TV commentator, book author, etc. She probably took the case just to see her own ugly mug on TV.
Grasping at straws didn't help his defense one bit, did it? Well, at least Littlejohn can always call Oliver Stone to get his story made into a movie. They can throw in all of the conspiracy theories. Maybe even start with how he always felt less manly thanks to his family name.
Maybe in this case it could be rationalized because he's already locked up for the other attacks so this conviction isn't going to change much anyway.
Or maybe because the Dorrian/Giuliani conspiracy defense was so crazily unbelievable in the face of the direct evidence against him that she knew he would be convicted if he used it, so may as well collect a paycheck.
good. let him burn.