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To: freespirited

Sure and if a jury finds a defendant not guilty, the judge should be able to overturn that as well. Trial by jury is the cornerstone of any democracy. I’m not in favor of weakening the power of juries.


3 posted on 12/13/2008 11:17:58 PM PST by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: rednesss
Yes but you are seeing people make wild judgments based on skin color and not facts. Would you want to weaken our society because people feel that skin color is more important than the crime. I will give you a couple of examples. 1) O.J. 2) Twana Brawley 3)The Duke Lacrosse team fiasco (true, they were found not guilty, but not before they had to spend alot of money in defense attorney fees, Professors ridiculing them in public, and this did ultimately did affect them with their remaining time in college) 4) There was a case in Houston where this school administrator used school funds to do some repairs to her house. She got caught, went to court but there was a deadlock on her conviction part of the trial. The reason was the jurist wanted to know how much time she would do if she was convicted. The judge told him that this was not the sentencing phase of the trial so they have to re try the case because of this. The list goes on and on. As great as our Founding Fathers were, they never imagined that we would have this many un informed and insane liberals destroying our Democracy. I still haven't heard of a black on white crime being labeled as a “hate” crime yet. The Left changes the rules as they see fit, and we are suppose to just sit back and watch? Something needs to change!
4 posted on 12/13/2008 11:34:19 PM PST by claymax (Vote for a HERO...........not for the ZERO!)
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