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To: gridlock
Whoops, disregard my last post. I misread yours and thought there was a contradiction. I do have a problem with North Carolina law. If the Parole Board is allowed to second guess the courts what's the point of a trial - it's the parole board which decides what crime the prisoner committed when it considers his fate. Hardly just and maybe not even constitutional.
110 posted on 02/03/2004 6:23:17 PM PST by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
Hardly just and maybe not even constitutional.

If it is not Constitutional, that is a matter for the appeals courts in North Carolina, or perhaps a Federal appeals court. It is not the job of the Parole Board to determine what is Constitutional. It is their job to consider the record and decide on parole. The record shows a multiply convicted violent felon who attacked a 87-year-old woman in her home in the middle of the night.

This person's lawyer may want to wish that record away, but the Parole Board cannot do this.

As for whether or not calling somebody is a hypocrite is a personal attack, I guess that depends on how you are used to interacting with people. Back where I come from, calling somebody a hypocrite is considered bad form, especially if you don't back it up.

112 posted on 02/04/2004 6:11:21 AM PST by gridlock (Eliminate Perverse Incentives!)
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