At 8:55 PM -0500 11/11/98, Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:59:11 -0500 (EST) From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org> Subject: Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN]
Why would this be "unconstitutional?"
Juries are to be composed of your peers taken from the community in which the crime occurred. A single judge doesn't make a jury of ones peers.
Jim, "Grand Jury", a jury to see if there is enough evidence to warrant a full trial.
Irrelevant, one doesn't throw away the justice system because it might have been abused. One wrong does not justify another.
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