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To: Star Traveler
That's why we have juries ...

Unfortunately, in this case, the jury believed her lies. I just wonder if they thought a woman would never lie about rape? I am sure we will never know.

10 posted on 02/23/2010 11:51:16 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17

If that shows anything to everyone, it should show that it’s entirely possible to end up convicting innocent people (even by juries), so people should have a very high threshold for convicting someone.

Of course, that would mean that “others” would criticize such a system of giving as much benefit of the doubt as possible to the “accused” — as being “too soft on criminals”... doncha know... :-) [as we can all see on some of these FReeper threads, too...]


12 posted on 02/23/2010 12:02:28 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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