From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Though this has cropped up before on the list, the death of the trial judge,
>Sir David Croom-Johnson, produced an interesting obituary in the Telegraph.
>Extract:
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>I actually think there is something to be said for his summing-up: accidents
>do happen, and despite our horror at the thought of an innocent man's being
>shot and beaten up by the police, I don't necessarily blame the detectives,
>rash and impetuous though they might seem. What interests me particularly
>here are the judge's words about getting your blow in first, which seem
>significant in relation to self defence, and to contradict what I thought was
>the serious handicap (if faced with the prospect of criminal assault) of not
>being allowed by the law to take pre-emptive action. Any parallel with the
>Tony Martin case here?
>Anthony Harrison
Steve, & Anthony,
Anthony, shame on you! Don't you know, that laws are meant
for the 'rest of us', whilst self same laws are meant as 'guidelines' for
those who are either in office or bureaucrats?
That the 'gents' who fired upon the judge were not fired upon,
nor it seems, even threatened by any of his gestures, how is it that those
jurors even considered innocence? In my estimation, the minimum would
have been voluntary manslaughter. But, being a civil servant in the UK
apparently renders additional consideration.
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There is right and wrong and then there is legal and illegal. They
are rarely related to one another. What about the AFO who shot
someone in a car only a few years ago, they tried him three times
and finally he was found not guilty as I recall. Now, maybe what
he did was not illegal, but it was totally outside of the
guidelines for armed officers, and was it right?
Steve.
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