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To: Carry_Okie
As to the "mentally ill," such a finding should be in a court of law, preferably by jury.

After seeing what juries do in some malpractice cases, I wouldn't want to trust my fate to a jury.

14 posted on 03/19/2013 6:23:25 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem
After seeing what juries do in some malpractice cases, I wouldn't want to trust my fate to a jury.

That's a civil case between an apparently injured party and a supposedly deep pocket. I think that in a case deciding whether to commit a person the tendency would be to avoid adverse judgment, particularly where a reasonable doubt standard comes into play.

15 posted on 03/19/2013 8:53:29 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: neverdem
After seeing what juries do in some malpractice cases, I wouldn't want to trust my fate to a jury.

Why not?

Have YOU got 'deep pockets' and have been demonized to the point that your mere existance is cause for a bunch of random people to feel justified in stealing a lot of your money and giving it away?

16 posted on 03/20/2013 4:07:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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