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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 20, 10:00 am, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> rbwinn wrote:
>>> On Jul 20, 6:29�am, Stan-O <bndsna...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:43:08 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Most of whom are 'beleivers' in one god or another.
>>>>>>>>> We've got one on trial over here at the moment. He shot a guy, then
>>>>>>>>> tried to decapitate two women with a katana. Apparently God told him to
>>>>>>>>> do it. Hopefully the jury disagrees.- Hide quoted text -
>>>>>>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>>>>>>> Almost every murderer today says that because they know the atheistic
>>>>>>>> court system will reward them for saying it.
>>>>>>>> =================================
>>>>>>>> Why would an "atheistic court system" reward someone who claimed to believe
>>>>>>>> in gods, skippy?
>>>>>>> Lawyers reward anyone who adds to their power and financial security.
>>>>>> You've got a whole "reward" thing going on at the moment, why is that?- Hide quoted text -
>>>>> I do not have anything going at the present time. �Lawyers were the
>>>>> people who started "plea bargaining" and did away with the right to
>>>>> trial by jury.
>>>> That's odd, because my boss was just on a jury trial last month. I
>>>> guess that makes you a liar again, doesn't it?- Hide quoted text -
>>> No, it does not.  The right to trial by jury no longer exists.
>> Eh, wha?  Article 3 of the United States Constitution was repealed?
>>
>>>  People
>>> who commit crimes serious enough to be profitable to lawyers are given
>>> the privilege of trial by jury.   That means if you commit a murder,
>>> you can have a lawyer and a trial by jury.  If you are arrested on
>>> misdemeanor charges by police who have decided to harrass you, you
>>> cannot get a trial by jury even though the Constitution guarantees you
>>> that right.
>> Um, no.  You might want to look up the difference between criminal and
>> civil charges...
>>
>> --
> I do not need to look anything up.  Misdemeanors are crimes.  It says
> criminal complaint right on the complaint of a misdemeanor case.

Yes, the right to a jury trial, however, does not apply to petty offenses.

See District of Columbia v. Clawans, 300 U.S. 617; Schick v. United 
States, 195 U.S. 65; Frankfurter and Corcoran, 39 Harv.L.R. 917. Cf. 
Rule 38(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [28 U.S.C., Appendix].

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