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Article #232Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada
From: Jim Mercer
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 01:44
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 01:44
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In article <CnqxBn.63p@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>, Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> wrote: >There never was a "Nelles trial". If I remember rightly, the judge threw it >out because of lack of evidence. We'll never know if, during a real trial, >how a judge would have ruled on the publicity issue, because it never got that >far. Besides, even at its worst, the Nelles publicity *never* got as bad >as the Teale/Homolka crimes did before they even had suspects. nelles was tried by the media, and her sentence was loss of credibility, which given her medical (nursing) career, was a very serious sentence. sure, she was given her job back, but how long will she have to bear the stares and mis-trust of her co-workers because the media labelled her a child killer? -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research merce@iguana.reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ "... or you can become a road-kill on the information superhighway." ] [ -- Colin Mcgregor ]
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