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Article #949Re: Say it ain't so
From: Mark Eckenwiler
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 21:32
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 21:32
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In <1992Dec19.081442.24189@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, simon@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca sez: > >There certainly was a question (in the defendants' minds, at least, >and in the end, in the jury's as well) as to whether the police >officers who beat Rodney King had "done it" (ie., committed the crime >of assault). That they had admitted to the actual beating is no more >significant than the fact that Lemrick Nelson admitted to being >somewhere in the vicinity during the Rosenbaum murder; neither >admission had much relevance to the real issues facing the respective >juries as they determined their verdicts. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the term "actus reus". It might prevent your making demonstrably incorrect statements such as the second sentence above. -- Morally and artistically, Henry Miller had MORE right to free speech than Walt Disney and [Father] Coughlin because Miller was an honest man whereas Disney and Coughlin were liars. - Ed Nilges Mark Eckenwiler eck@panix.com ...!cmcl2!panix!eck
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!udel!intercon!psinntp!panix!eck From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Say it ain't so Message-ID: <1992Dec20.213222.13753@panix.com> Date: 20 Dec 92 21:32:22 GMT References: <12088@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1992Dec13.052718.17314@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec19.081442.24189@IRO.UMontreal.CA> Organization: Superseding Information, Inc. Lines: 21