----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Who did it?
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:38:31PM -0500, CJ Kucera wrote:
>
> > First, we have to know without a doubt who was behind this. Absolute
> > proof. When we've got that, we restrict our operations to those
> > people.
>
> Can you have "absolute proof" of anything? In the American justice
> system, they talk about "beyond a reasonable doubt". But I knew someone
> who was being interviewed for possibly serving on a jury and he asked
> what percentage uncertainty constitutes a reasonable doubt. They
> promptly rejected him from the jury (too scientific?).
>
When I served on a jury, I was told "beyond reasonable doubt" was "having
enough certainty so that you would proceed in your most serious affairs." An
example of this was going ahead and buying a house after checking it out.
Dan M.
