-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.ULT.3.95.970604154333.14912A-100000@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>, on 06/04/97 at 03:50 PM, "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu> said:
Maybe it is just me, but I think the whole McVeigh trial issues aren't about whether he did or didn't do it. it's important, but my concerns are more about the process the government used to prove it's case.
It's built this huge circumstantial case, sprinkled liberally with weeping mothers and children, added with a couple of witnesses who would probably say anything to avoid execution.
None of it actually proved he DID it, just that it was possible.
When a person can be convicted by sympathy, twisted circumstantial evidence, and testimony given under threat of execution, you have to wonder about the _process_ in this country, and th idea of trial by an impartial body.
In my gut, I think he probably did do it, but I cannot see how the prosecutors proved it beyond a "reasonable doubt".
Considering the testimony that is going to be allowed for the penalty phase, I cannot forsee any verdict other than death.
Well you would think that with all the Talk by the Feds of how overwhelming the evedence was against him that they might actually give him a fair trial. I think that there is sothing about that in the Constitution. Oh silly me I forgot they have never read it as the last copy was used by Hoover for toilet paper 30yrs ago. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5Xvy49Co1n+aLhhAQFAbAQAxFZxLS36IDf/nYso7VId4x1Ah/qUuVGJ W9AMBlLvpHRLZAkUwbQ4ZSK6ESz+fpXea0ba/mNHSaNkU2N+1x2/48AfiNv0+rlC qN4DZsiqj7RZxIX4jtxTKgcHloHPT6oLW8F89XUW0nERJIEH/JEMnYR3jnJ8us6W AWmxdxDVWmM= =GQs+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----