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Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN] (fwd)
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- Subject: Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN] (fwd)
- From: Jim Choate <[email protected]>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:55:05 -0600 (CST)
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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:59:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rabid Wombat <[email protected]>
> 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?)
Irrelevant.
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