well gee, I read the court documents even though they make me question
some of my more comfortable assumptions about the justice system and
force me to agree with both Sam and some other people I would not
normally side with.

I am still busy trying to find out if my dad is ok so I am not going
to go through this again. I am not sure I agree with those numbers,
btw. Are you asking me my opinion as a private citizen or asking me
what I think the prosecutor should have done?

Dana

On 7/8/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Larry wrote:
> > What proof Dana. Lets see you're condemning the man just because he
> > seems to fit some vague profile that has no predictability.
> 
> Well, let's put some numbers to it.  Let's use a scale from 0 to 10
> with 10 being 100% certain he's guilty and 0% being certain he's
> innocent.  In a court of law, 90% is considered guilty beyond a
> reasonable doubt.
> 
> Now let's look at the facts:
> 
> 1.) Given the odd circumstances surrounding her collapse, and the
> probability of the spouse being responsible for these oddities, I
> think we'd have to move him from 0 to 2.
> 
> 2.) Next there's the profile and the unsubstantiated rumors.  I'll be
> generous and say that those get us from 2 to 4.
> 
> Ok, let's also assume that a "3" is necesary for an inquiry and a "5"
> for an investigation.  Mr. Schiavo is now a generous (to Dana) "4",
> i.e. not worth of an investigation.  However one was undertaken anyway
> and came back negative.  That moves him back down to a generous 2.
> 
> Dana seems to be saying that her analysis, combinded with her
> experience and intuition, is sufficient to move him from a 2 to a 7 or
> 8.  We are saying that, at most, the intuition is worth a point.
> 
> So the question for Dana is, how do you justify a 5 point move in
> light of so little evidence?  Intuition is a sufficient answer, but
> the answer is so far unclear.
> 
> 

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