Karma's a bitch? The death of Brent Shapiro

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Robert Shapiro's Son Dies at L.A. Hospital

LOS ANGELES - The 24-year-old son of O.J. Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro died at a hospital after being found unconscious, and the coroner's office said he had tested positive for amphetamines.
Brent Shapiro, a University of Southern California graduate who had just enrolled in law school, died Monday. He had been found unconscious the morning before.

Officials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Hospital told the coroner's office that Shapiro had tested positive for the drug, said Lt. David Smith, a coroner's office spokesman. "It's being considered an accidental death," he said.

An official ruling on cause of death will be made after toxicology results come back in eight to 10 weeks, Smith said.

Robert Shapiro and his office declined to comment. He was a key member of the "dream team" that successfully defended Simpson against charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

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Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but it seems the defenders of OJ have suffered slightly above normal averages as a result of their defending a guilty man, allowing him to go free. We all know that karma will and does bite you in the ass, and I'm hoping that people begin to see the reality behind such behavior.

[qanda]

1. WHAT!!!

Are you talking about?

[MrModerate]

2. the sins of the father?

I think this is a private tragedy and we should stay the fuck out.

[radwriter0555]

23. Excuse me, shapiro didn't do anything wrong. We may not LIKE what he did,

but he used the law to his client's advantage, and the LA County DA SUCKED and lost.

You'd be singing his praises if he'd gotten the same verdict for a family member of yours.

[faithfulcitizen]

3. that's just cold.

;(

[Connie_Corleone]

4. So, his father represented O.J. So what?

THERE IS NO DAMN KARMA IN HIS SON'S DEATH!!!

[neuvocat]

5. I think this is why I don't believe in Karma anymore.

[NorthernSpy]

22. the concept of karma justified untouchability and the caste system

It would be tough to invent a more evil concept.

[Beetwasher]

6. Wow, That's Really Low and Nasty

Talk about Karma.

[Demoiselle]

7. NO, Please! This is over the line for me.

Anybody who loses a child gets sympathy from me. I suppose there is no real expression of happiness in your post about this terrible sad event, but even though I believe fervently that OJ was very guilty and got very lucky....I can't welcome the idea of curses on the heads of those who defended him. Everybody in this country is entitled to a decent defense. The dream team did its job. I don't think the prosecutors did theirs.

[HamdenRice]

It would be karma only if Brent had died by ...

having had his head almost completely severed from his body by an ex-football player who had co-starred in the "Naked Gun" movies.

[jobycom]

8. Karma for providing a man his Constitutional right to a legal defense?

Man, you're pretty harsh.

Besides, the prosecutors and the judge let OJ go, not the defense. There wasn't one bit of evidence they could make stick against him. The DNA evidence was discredited by the man who invented the DNA test. The glove didn't fit. The crime scene investigator was caught committing perjury and taped bragging about fixing evidence and hating black people. They couldn't place OJ at the scene, or with the murder weapon. He may have been guilty, but I don't see how the jury would have thought so. I wouldn't have voted him guilty on what the prosecution presented. OJ spent a lot of money on a defense a first year public defender could have provided.

[onenote]

9. the "reality behind such behavior"? WTF?? Way off base.

So I take it your position is that once someone is accused of a crime, they shouldn't be allowed to hire lawyers. Just string 'em up? Who gets to decide which folks are guilty without a trial and which ones arent?

Exactly what behavior by OJ's lawyers bothers you? The fact that they did their jobs better than the police, the prosecutors, and the judge? What are they supposed to do...come into court and say, geez, the prosecution sucks, we better throw this case?

Give me a break. Robert Shapiro and the rest of the "dream team" are guilty of nothing more than representing their client fully.

And if there was such a thing as karma, why wouldn't the victims be the jury. They're the ones you have a beef with, not the lawyers.

onenote

[CatBoreal]

10. Karma doesn't fuck around with people's children...

You do the crime, you do the time; not your wife, not your children, not your dog. That's a judeo-christian fallacy. (sins of the father and all that)

What you're suggesting is just cold and mean spirited. This is a family tragedy. Don't try and make hay with it.

[CatWoman]

11. Karma for what???????

what are you talking about?

I can't hit alert fast enough.

[T Town Jake]

12. "Perhaps I'm reading too much into it"...

...Perhaps you should simply learn how to read. Or think. Or feel.

This thread is a disgrace, as is its author.

[aquart]

13. Lawyers shouldn't defend the guilty because God will get them?

Way to go for destroying the rights of everyone!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. So this man loses his son

because he defended the legal rights of an accused criminal?

I DON'T THINK SO


To lose a child so senselessly is an anguish from which you never recover. And it is one the rest of the world must observe with compassion and respect.

[tamtam]

15. WTF

Defending a guilty man? OJ (whether guilty or not) deserves a right to legal counsel. When your as rich as OJ you can afford a "dream team" to defend you. I take no pleasure in the death of Shapiro's son. I find it downright disgusting that you would make an correlation between this man doing his job and the death of his child.

[FredScuttle]

16. Booooooo

What a ridiculous post. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[ronnykmarshall]

17. That's just plain shitty.

[prolesunited]

18. Hopefully, you will never lose a son

and have someone say you deserved it because you were simply doing your job.

Lots of defense attorneys defend what many would consider less-than-savory people, but that's their job and that's how the criminal justice system works.

Or, would you prefer attorneys render their own verdicts and refuse to defend people it they think they are guilty or don't deserve a credible defense?

[NorthernSpy]

19. pardon me, but what the hell are you thinking?

Karma?

Bad things happen to all kinds of people every single day, no matter who their parents are.

Sometimes people do foolish things and emerge from the experience none the worse for wear. Sometimes people do foolish things -- like dosing themselves with a very large quantity of amphetamine -- and suffer for it. It's called a natural consequence. I seriously doubt that the universe somehow took out a hit on this guy because his dad is Robert Shapiro.

I mean, come on...

[madinmaryland]

20. What the hell does Robert Shapiro's

son have to do with OJ. This seems more like flamebait than anything of interest.

Who else has suffered. I know Johnnie Cochrane passed away recently, but is that what you are basing this on?

:wtf:

[nini]

21. BULLSHIT

I don't wish losig a child on ANYONE.

I dont' have to like the guy but thinking the death of his child is what he gets it's downright evil.

Fuck that!

[peacebaby3]

24. What a horrible post! Hope the mods delete the entire thread! n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

25. LOCKING

Flamebait.