Posted on 04/16/2008 7:28:06 PM PDT by Strategerist
I think there should always be two or three witnesses, not just one. That’s what the Bible says. Just one witness is too likely to be mistaken or deliberately lying.
I’d consider physical evidence as a witness. For instance, if this guy was caught pawning her stuff or if his DNA was on her couch or whatever.
I can deal easier in a free society with 100 animals, if I'm allowed to carry, than I can over a single innocent man jailed. I prefer our original constitution.
/johnny
This man should receive a public apology and he should be $$$$ compensated as well. I wish him luck and according to what was said...he is a forgiving soul. I hope he walks out into the sunshine and blue skies and starts a new life for himself and for his family. God bless him. He has suffered enough.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty. Not the other way 'round.
/johnny
People who make mistakes are still liable. To say it was a mistake doesn’t mean there can’t be consequences for making the mistake. You’re an accountant and you make an honest bookkeeping mistake that loses a million dollars, you still get investigated and maybe lose your job.
People get taken to court for making mistakes all the time. It may be accidental or unintentional, but they are still responsible.
SO when can we come by and lock you up for 25 years for thinking bad things you haven’t been caught and punished for yet.
Address I can send to police to?
Also, by your logic, the woman who wrongly ID’d him isn’t “innocent” either. Now maybe we jail her for awhile to balance the scales.
As someone in the legal profession, I always say that everyone hates lawyers until they need one. We're almost guilty till proven innocent in this country.
I am very pro-defense. I think many of these defense haters would start changing their minds with a little education. The Duke lacrosse team case work a lot of people up. There's more Mike Nifongs out there than people think. The good news for the Duke lacrosse team is that they had money and could hire some very good lawyers. Many people can't.
Everyone's entitled to a fair trial. If someone really is guilty, nail him, but not every defendant is guilty.
I've been working on a poli-sci/sci-fiction book, and you just punched some holes in the notional constitution.
/johnny
I am sorry for what you had to go through (I sure hope the guys who did that to you paid for it), but I am even happier for you that it didn’t distort your sense of justice. Or that it manifested itself in you that you took the attitude ‘all men are like this’ or some equivalent.
Would you like to be the next example? It doesn't matter, right?
Cheers!
I don't know what it sounds like. However, statistically, this area was said to have the highest amount of cases disproved by DNA in the nation. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...
Wow! What did I say that tripped a switch? Send me a private email if you don’t want to talk in the open about your ongoing book.
So if you get zotted, it's OK because you've committed thought crimes anyway?
Cheers!
Do you want to be "that one?"
Those that are guilty and go free do so because either:
1. The prosecution couldn't prove its case.
2. Law enforcement didn't do their jobs properly
3. Biased jury
1 and 2 are preventable by the government properly following procedures and doing their homework and respecting the rights of the populace. The third is the price we sometimes pay in a free society.
I give $$$ to these guys. I encourage you folks to give a little bit .
Our government should assist in the interests of justice.
That poor fellow; what a travesty.
Yes, there is such a thing as an innocent man. We all are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I’ll have to say that you’ll fit right in as the country becomes a police state.
Almost? Any slight by any figure in any fashion has now become a money machine lawyers to fleece the public. Need a new Escalade...sue for it. We LOATHE these parasites. Sorry if you are one, but if you are, we think you deserve to be urinated on publicly. I understand there are good lawyers defending people...but they are few and far between. If you are, I thank you. Also, if you are, go club a nearby ambulance chaser...we need the help.
It sure was easier for Nifong back in ‘85 before all that damn CSI DNA crap ruined everything.
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