Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN] (fwd)
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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.
Are you at all familiar with the case? There seems to be a fair amount of evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that would indicate a certain politically and financially powerful family used its influence to keep the two prime suspects in the case from coming to trial for over 20 years.
Irrelevant, one doesn't throw away the justice system because it might have been abused. One wrong does not justify another.
One judge is better than nothing. OTOH, maybe a football, a few pine trees, and some vertical slope would do justice.
Actualy 10 guilty men walking free is better than one innocent man in jail, or a justice system that gets abused.
(Or do you think there should be a statute of limitations involved?)
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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.
Correct, but this isn't a guilty or innocent trial, this is a "is there enough evidence to try this person" type trial. This judge can't throw the perp in jail, only throw another trial where there will be 12 to judge. -- "To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust" http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::petro@playboy.com
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