On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Eric Cordian wrote:
The manslaughter case against Ruby Ridge shooter Lon Horiuchi was effectively neutered today when a federal judge acquiesed to demands by Justice Department lawyers and moved the case out of Idaho's jurisdiction and into federal court. This means that Horiuchi will be tried in federal court in front of a federal jury on state manslaughter charges, and not in front of a jury from Idaho's Boundary County, where the shooting took place.
From a purely pragmatic point of view, they should have realized that only a trial without any hint of federal interference had any hope of reducing
I thought the people in our governmnet didn't really think things through before... Now I know they don't even think. the growing distrist of government. Even though the whole Ruby Ridge incident stinks, you'd think they'd at least have the brains to do proper damage control. Though, a conviction would certainly shock this country a little bit, wouldn't it? Ryan Anderson - Alpha Geek PGP fp: 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`