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To: Mr. Rational

You know what I find truly amazing is that us juries actually have been able to convict people of crimes like that of rape before we even knew how to test for DNA.


146 posted on 04/16/2006 5:59:04 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: marajade

Yeah, and just take a spin on the internet to learn how many have been exonerated by DNA after years and years in jail based on "say-so". The Use of DNA is also closing cases. The "her say-so" has yielded MANY instances of wrongful imprisonment.


150 posted on 04/16/2006 6:23:16 PM PDT by Alia
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To: marajade

You know what I find truly amazing is people willing to attempt to support a position for which they have no substantiating data, and for which all existing data directly contradicts their position.

Support your argument based on demonstrable fact - not emotion and feelings.

While you are at it - explain how the defense was so confident that there would be no DNA evidence linking them to Crystal. How - exactly - did they know this? There are a few potential ways, but one truly logical one - they knew they didn't do it.

The only reason this is in the news is because it is White boys. This is a racist case. 80 rapes/year in Durham, probably 4-5 real ones since this case started. Why is this one a lead story? Do the other 79 not count, or perhaps do they not fit the theme the media and race baitors want to promote?

I thought about your post another second, and realized that the DA is acting like the MSM - as if technology has not advanced. Indeed - where would the defense case be if they -
Did not have DNA results?
Could not track "corroborating phone call" to the other stripper's cell phone?
Did not have time stamped photos indicating "victim's" condition was prior to her arrival at party?
etc.

The DA, Crystal, and you are acting as if an allegation is all it takes. Luckily for the true victims - the Lacrosse team - technology has advanced which can support their quite evident innocence of the crime under discussion.


177 posted on 04/16/2006 8:25:04 PM PDT by Mr. Rational
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To: marajade
You know what I find truly amazing is that us juries actually have been able to convict people of crimes like that of rape before we even knew how to test for DNA.

And some respectable number of those convictions based on nothing more than the woman's say-so, turned out to be false.

193 posted on 04/17/2006 5:58:18 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
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