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To: 1rudeboy
Don't take that personally, but the issues you present have been litigated, and decided.

I don't take it personally, you have not made it so, to your credit. Well, if issues have been litigated and decided why do we wait lifetimes to execute convicted killers? Juries can and do make errors. I believe the one in this case was wrong. Terribly so.

117 posted on 07/28/2008 10:51:50 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
You pose an interesting question: did the jury, in fact, make an error? I have seen nothing that suggests it is so (although that is not evidence). I've seen members of the jury express dismay at the sentence, but that sort of thing is not permitted to affect their deliberations for that reason.

It's a tough question, and you can see the 5th Circuit struggle with it . . . the principle is that jury verdicts stand.

118 posted on 07/28/2008 10:59:36 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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