From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 12:05:22 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> I am greatly disturbed by the two trails just completed this week in
> Florida for the same crime. The prosecutor says that they weren't
> sure who did it, so they charged both the adult suspect and the two
> boys in separate trials. They then proceeded to present different
> theories in the two trials...
That was indeed wierd.
If guilty verdicts had come back in both cases, it would have
been an indictment of our entire legal system and would have
reinforced in my mind the notion that objective truth is an
elusive thing indeed, and getting more so all the time. Shows
to go ya what a good lawyer can do.
Surely we will eventually be ashamed of ourselves: we had the
technology way back in the late 20th century to put webcams
everywhere in public places, but didn't do it. Who knows how
many crimes went unsolved and how many innocents punished
because of our insistence on personal privacy and overreliance
on outdated traditional legal systems. spike
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