[80860] in Cypherpunks
Re: There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Fri May 30 14:12:55 1997
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:49:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: TruthMonger.tm@dev.null
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199705291623.KAA00762@wombat.sk.sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
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> A major nail in the coffin of Justice for any accused in the U.S.
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> was when the justice system promoted the concept of guilt by virtue
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> of "circumstantial" evidence to the point where people can now be
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> convicted as a result of speculation rather than evidence. Prosecutors
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> now seem to need only to convince the sheeple that it was "possible"
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> for the defendant to have commited the crime and that circumstantial
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> evidence points *only* to the accused.
>
Yeah, right. Must be how O.J. got convicted in criminal court. Ooops -
just remembered that he walked. Maybe Bell can beat the wrap with a good
stiff-arm and a few Hertz commercials ...
