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To: JTN
It's next to the third paragraph under "Related links." Whether she was guilty or not is irrelevant.

What is relavant is that the jury heard the whole story and convicted her on all counts.

You appear to consider her lawyer's version of the event to be more credible than the police's version. The jury disagreed and they would likely have had much more information to base their opinions on and would have been able to listen to the people involved explain their sides of the event.

To me, that's a lot more relavant than what the person who is trying to sue the police department's lawyer says.

19 posted on 12/08/2005 12:39:26 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic
You appear to consider her lawyer's version of the event to be more credible than the police's version. The jury disagreed and they would likely have had much more information to base their opinions on and would have been able to listen to the people involved explain their sides of the event.

The jury was considering the evidence that the woman committed a crime, not whether or not the police actions were appropriate. It's not that I consider the lawyer's version of events more trustworthy than that of the police. I consider the video more trustworthy.

30 posted on 12/08/2005 12:53:08 PM PST by JTN ("We must win the War on Drugs by 2003." - Dennis Hastert, Feb. 25 1999)
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To: untrained skeptic

"What is relavant is that the jury heard the whole story and convicted her on all counts."

No it is not relevant. The the roadside cops did have this information, nor were they judges, nor after she passed the roadside tests have probable cause.

You cannot mix after the fact information with what the cops knew at the time or had reason to believe at the time of the incident.


62 posted on 12/08/2005 1:42:47 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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