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Grizz (glengoed@pacific.telebyte.net) wrote:
: what they saw. The judge realized the jury didn't get the point.

Nope.  The judge ruled that it never should have even gone to
the jury.  The defense filed a motion that said in essence
that the prosecution had offered no evidence of 
negligence.  Hence, she had no choice but to throw the case
out.  It just took her several days to decide on that motion.

Folks who are complaining about the verdict don't understand
that the laws are set up this way to protect them.

Say you walk into your brother's room, and he's about to
attempt suicide.  You grab for the gun, but just as you touch
it, he fires and kills himself.  No-one saw it but you.

Who's to say what really happened in that room but you?  
No one.  Yet the people calling for Lebow's head in Florida
would have you do 10 years.  Is that justice?

Better to free 1000 guilty men than to condemn an innocent.
I slaughtered that quote, but the idea is caputured.
That's what our legal system is based around.  If that breaks
down, we are on the road to becoming a police state.


Bill

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