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To: LeonardFMason
What if there was an eyewitness?

Not good enough. Eyewitness testimony has been shown over and over again to be unreliable. As a jurist, I could possibly send a man to prison on circumstantial evidence alone, just not to death.

14 posted on 12/02/2009 9:02:27 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68
Not good enough. Eyewitness testimony has been shown over and over again to be unreliable. As a jurist, I could possibly send a man to prison on circumstantial evidence alone, just not to death.

Well, if you don't like circumstantial evidence, and you don't like eyewitness testimony, what WOULD cause you to condemn a man? Or are you just saying you oppose the use of the death penalty at all? Not taking any particular adversarial position on it myself, I just can't follow what you're thinking.

23 posted on 12/03/2009 7:22:15 AM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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