[jandji]

as a fact, you don't know ricci did this either.

[Devil_Anse]

Well, it was never proved in a court of law.

I heard he confessed to it.

We don't really know much of anything as a fact in this case. How do we even really know that Ricci had prior convictions? Have any of us ever seen the certified copies of them? Yet we take that as a given. We have to take some things as a given in order to try to figure out the case.

But we should be ready to throw out what we think we "know" if we find out differently later.

I have in the past tried to frame my thoughts on this in terms of "maybe" and "perhaps." I have been told by others that I shouldn't use those words. I used to always say "alleged" when talking about the crimes mentioned here, the ones that hadn't been proven in a court of law. I have slipped on this, b/c I have seen so many people speaking in absolutes.

I will tell you my opinion, however. My opinion is that Ricci was a convicted criminal, and a scumbag.