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Re: absurd that you can line up people by ethnicity and/or politics

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it's a big problem when people interpret innocence and guilt by recourse to the things they walk in the door with. rather than the facts of the case.

EXACTLY.

About thirty years ago I spent three weeks on a jury. The 2.5 days of deliberation was one of the most distasteful experiences I have ever been involved in. This is a true quote of one of my fellow jurors:

"I don't care what the evidence showed, I just believe that......."

She wasn't the same lady that kept quoting from the Bible and tried to persuade us to use scripture instead of the law.

A sour taste left in my mouth...sometimes I still notice it after 3 decades.

Amazingly, I have not been called up again in thirty years. And I am quite glad about that.

Knock wood.

D&O


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absurd that you can line up people by ethnicity and/or politics
By: Cactus Flower
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Mon, 15 Jul 13 5:58 PM
Msg. 14070 of 54959

and have a fair idea of whether they think z is guilty.

mark geragos was right. it's a big problem when people interpret innocence and guilt by recourse to the things they walk in the door with. rather than the facts of the case.

political division swallows all sorts of things as it metastasizes.

of course there are problems with us gun law. but that doesn't make z guilty. if a society chooses to write asinine laws, why should it be outraged that individuals live by them?

if even the mass shootings at a primary school result in no changes to the law, then there is a problem with the way the political system runs.

the thing that is the root of the problem once again is the inability to affect change. and the reason for that is a sanctified constitution designed to resist real time good sense.

z isn't the problem. but having folks wandering around with guns is a recipe for a violent society. focussing the rage on z misses the real issue.


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