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fdp@netcom.com (Ciccio) wrote:
>malloy@cris.com (Sean Malloy) writes:
>>Rewriting the laws _can_ change it if the law you rewrite is the one
>>forbidding double jeopardy.
>
>Some people are having a really hard time grasping the reality, they
>insist on having their fantasies...ok so let's play along a bit.
>
>The law you want to rewrite is the 5th amendment of the US constitution.  
>That would take 2/3 of each house of congress, plus 3/4 of the states.  Ahh, 
>but wait, that still leaves those pesky lawyers even if OJ were retried, 
>can't have them, they might help get a NOT GUILTY again...so we have to do 
>another amendment to the 6th amendment.  Oh Damn, those idiots who sit on 
>juries, get rid of them.  That will take another amendment to the 6th 
>amendment.  There's prolly a few others that would have to get tossed.  Oh 
>but wait.  Damn! The states have their have their own constitutions that have 
>the same stuff...now we can go through the process of getting rid of those 
>provisions in each state...or at the very least, Calif, in OJ's case.

Straw man fallacy; your argument is therefore specious.

The declaration was that changing the law would _not_ change the
verdict. I pointed out that _if_ you changed the law prohibiting
double jeopardy, then the verdict _could_ be changed, by retrying him.


>I'd say by the time all that got done, OJ will have played a gillion rounds
>of golf and boffed a whole lot of good looking model type babes. And be
>long gone before the new trial would take place.

I made no claims as to whether this was a) likely, b) desirable, or c)
amusing. The original declaration had a hole in its logic, which I
pointed out. If you are going to use this as justification to read
some kind of twisted agenda into my motivations, then I earnestly
suggest that you go to your Yellow Pages and look for someplace where
you can rent a _clue_.

>Now for our daily dose of reality:  OJ Simpson was found NOT GUILTY!
>Nicole Brown-Simpson is DEAD! Ronald Goldman is DEAD!  Dream all you
>want... ain't nothing going to change it.  You just have to sit there and
>take it.  That's that.

_You_ are the one who makes the unwarranted assumption that I have any
interest _whatsoever_ in whether or not O.J. Simpson killed Ron
Goldman, Nicole Simpson, Jimmy Hoffa, John F. Kennedy, Amelia Earhart,
Ambrose Bierce, or Cock Robin.

If _I_ were interested in trying to read motivations into other
people's words, I might be tempted to suppose that _you_ were the one
with the O.J. fixation, from the way you seem to be unable to read
people's commentary that has, at best, a tangential association with
the trial without leaping to the conclusion that _they_ are immovably
fixated on O.J.'s guilt or innocence.

Get a _life_.


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