On Fri, May 30, 1997 at 11:49:19AM -0400, Rabid Wombat wrote:
A major nail in the coffin of Justice for any accused in the U.S.
was when the justice system promoted the concept of guilt by virtue
of "circumstantial" evidence to the point where people can now be
convicted as a result of speculation rather than evidence. Prosecutors
now seem to need only to convince the sheeple that it was "possible"
for the defendant to have commited the crime and that circumstantial
evidence points *only* to the accused.
Yeah, right. Must be how O.J. got convicted in criminal court. Ooops - just remembered that he walked. Maybe Bell can beat the wrap with a good stiff-arm and a few Hertz commercials ...
I don't understand the animus against circumstantial evidence, frankly. Some circumstantial evidence is extremely good evidence. If anything, eyewitness accounts are vastly overrated. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html