In <Pine.SUN.3.94.960927175024.24094F-100000@polaris>, on 09/27/96 at 05:51 PM, Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> said: I do not currently have an active practice in the United States. Should a project come along within those boarders which interests me, that might change. I do not foresee that happening however. I presumed that --it's a plus! I never did, and never will. the research and the smell of blood (if channeled to real justice) is immensely satisfying --it is the members of the American club, and the intendent body trading which turns my stomach --that, and 'kill' based compensation. the difference in civil v. common law origined justice is not the code... to put it another way: in criminal procedings: I would rather be considered guilty, until proven innocent; than I would be presumed innocent, until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. a nation whch can base a conviction on conspiracy to commit a crime, or permits circumstantial evidence to close the gap towards 'beyond a reasonable doubt,' has lost any pretense of understand- ing the heritage of common law: the Magna Carta. -- Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a whole lot better than what we have now.