Frank wrote: >Despite what some think the justice system works pretty damned well >most of the time. We hear about the "travesties of justice" all the >time because they make sensational news, but day in day out the guilty >usually get convicted and the innocent usually go free.
Just pointing one thing out. That's an easy statement to make until you are the person wrongly convicted or unjustly sentenced. THEN the justice system, regardless of how well it has worked in on a case by case basis, is a piece of crap. "Better one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be condemned." - Thomas Jefferson I know you'll agree. Tom C. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:54 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: >> No comment regarding Bob's guilt/innocence but I can tell you from being in >> many product liability trials, that its not about the facts - its about the >> story being told and how believable it and the story tellers (witnesses and >> lawyers) are. > > You are, of course, correct. That's why in an earlier post I wondered > if something about Bob put the jury off. I'm not saying he's an > off-putting guy, I'm reacting to what I've seen in print (on-line, > that is). > > In my previous career I saw folks that I was sure were innocent get > convicted and I saw others I knew were guilty be found "not guilty". > Those things didn't happen often, but they did happen. > > Despite what some think the justice system works pretty damned well > most of the time. We hear about the "travesties of justice" all the > time because they make sensational news, but day in day out the guilty > usually get convicted and the innocent usually go free. > > If Bob really is innocent I hope he gets his freedom back. > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
