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To: MadIvan
In a courtroom situation, the Judge should rule...

1. The man had an expired visa, he was in violation of the law. (1st offense)
2. He did not heed a lawful order by police to stop/halt. (2nd offense)
2. He resisted arrest. (3rd offense)
3. He, by these offenses, distracted police from their work of locating and apprehending mass murderers -- this is obstruction of justice (4th offense)
3. His commission of these offenses ordinarily would not result in a death penalty (of which there is none in the UK anyway).
4. He made himself conspicuous, however, taking flight and resisted the police at a time and in a place where mass killing had been perpetrated and more is being attempted.
5. This court will not remove from the police their ability to aggressively hunt down mass murderers because one scared law-breaker (as petty as his initial offense of visa violation may appear), thought that it was better to risk being shot than allowing his visa violation to yield lesser conseqiences.
6. Family gets NOTHING from the court.
7. Public receives due warning: Whatever your minor violations of the law may be...do not run from the police, especially when you are at the scene of a major crime. 8. Illegal aliens BEWARE: You all may be conspicuously suspect.
46 posted on 07/25/2005 5:40:09 AM PDT by Free Baptist
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To: Free Baptist
He did not heed a lawful order by police to stop/halt. (2nd offense)

It's not clear he heard them. And they were plain-clothes cops, so it wasn't clear they were really cops, even.

He resisted arrest. (3rd offense)

Perhaps, not knowingly.

140 posted on 07/25/2005 7:26:41 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Free Baptist

Re # 6: Jack Straw has already said that the family will receive a generous compensation for their loss.


197 posted on 07/25/2005 6:28:07 PM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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