Re: DNA was: Re: Students Want Chance To Defend Themselves

On Apr 20, 3:26=A0am, gfnaa...@nospam.net wrote:
> No asshole, juries do not decide what is "reasonable." =A0
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> Now run along and play stupid somewhere else. =A0

    It's pretty amazing how you can be so stupid about so many
things.

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> In <dbabc3b2-4b22-40cf-a035-22c5f856d...@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, on=

> 04/19/2008
> =A0 =A0at 07:43 AM, "deemsb...@aol.com" <deemsb...@aol.com> said:
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> >On Apr 19, 9:34=A0am, gfnaa...@nospam.net wrote:
> >> In <e72dnZhZgo76-5TVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdn...@rcn.net>, on 04/18/2008
> >> =A0 =A0at 11:26 PM, "Ray O'Hara" <mary.palmu...@rcn.com> said:
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> >> ><deemsb...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >> >news:cb513bf8-9d13-4cb9-8862-eb1ea2a938d7@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com=
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> >> >On Apr 18, 9:28 pm, "Ray O'Hara" <mary.palmu...@rcn.com> wrote: > "J A=
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> >> ><a...@re.com> wrote in message
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> >> >>news:T5KdnVjTLLEPvpTVnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
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> >> >> > Incidentally, I'm pro death penalty, but only in cases where two
> >> >criteria
> >> >> > are met:
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> >> >> > 1) the crime is especially bad. Mass murder, murder / rape of chil=
dren,
> >> >> > etc.
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> >> >> > 2) the evidence exceeds the normal conviction standard of "beyond =
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> >> >> > reasonable doubt" to a degree that guilt is virtually certain.
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> >> >> it would be nice if people also understood what "reasonable" means.
> >> > =A0 "Reasonable" is whatever a jury decides. What do I win?
> >> >and the juries decide some weird standards of reasonable.
> >> >as =A0the O.J. robert blake, and phil specter trials show.
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> >> Wrong. =A0Juries do not define what "reasonable" is.
> > =A0 Uh, that's what they do every time they find one way or the other.