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In article <12088@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
>In <1992Dec4.222026.3727@Princeton.EDU> niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
>|In article <1992Dec3.015949.22567@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:

>|>What makes you think that the jury is so perfect, clever and immune to
>|>manipulation? 

>|Nothing, but I'd be at least as inclined to trust their opinion, given
>|that they were actually in the courtroom, as yours.

>Did you happen to feel the same way about the jury in the Rodney King case?

That I'd be at least as inclined to trust their opinion as Jake's?  Yes.

But seriously, the parallel doesn't hold.  In the RK case, the act was
on tape.  There was no question as to whether they had done it; they
didn't deny it.  The question was whether it was justified.  (Not to
mention that I watched most of the trial on Court TV.)

In the Crown Heights case, there wasn't (incontrovertible) proof that 
Nelson had committed the murder.  

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