Simpson Trial Cost

* Los Angeles is seeking financial assistance from the State of California for expenses incurred in the O.J. Simpson trial (Feb. 15). It is my contention that the television and radio networks should pay for the cost of the trial. The income directly derived from the programming from this trial will most likely exceed the costs incurred.

This solution relieves the taxpayers from an unnecessary financial burden and allows the networks to make their profit as they should in our “free-enterprise system.” There are profits being made by many people from this trial. Why shouldn’t the citizens of Los Angeles receive a share?

PHYLLIS LETIZIA

Los Angeles

* Asking the state to help with the immense expense of the Simpson trial costs is an excellent idea! Even better, Simpson himself should be billed. It is disgusting that all this money, time and manpower are being wasted just to put on a show. Can’t you people see through the glass? Simpson will never get convicted.

ROBB MELCHOR

Los Angeles

* Law enforcement agencies have a powerful deterrent to “high-visibility” crimes in Los Angeles, especially those committed by celebrities: Warn would-be perpetrators of the terrifying prospect that Dominick Dunne (“Judith Krantz in pants”) will come from New York to cover their trials and to pontificate before every camera in sight.

JOHN RECHY

Los Angeles

* The cross examination of police witnesses by Simpson’s attorneys (Feb. 15) was apparently an attempt to show that police made so many mistakes that the quality of the evidence has been compromised.

All they are succeeding in doing, whether it’s the smooth Johnnie Cochran or the abrasive and obsolete F. Lee Bailey, is to show that police work is done by professionals that have to make real-time decisions based on circumstances and are not robots following a checklist. Any errors made were not of a material nature and were certainly minute compared with errors these attorneys make even with time to plan their every move.

This boring, tedious and irrelevant cross-examination tactic should be transparent to every intelligent, unbiased person (spelled juror) that does not have his/her own agenda.

RYAL HAAKENSON

Covina