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To: Sherman Logan
"Vigilantism too often kills the wrong people. "

Data? Pct?

27 posted on 04/08/2010 2:36:30 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal
Since there's no trial, there's never any proof whether they got the right or the wrong guy.

Here's a case where there was a trial, including multiple appeals, and the vigilantes decided they didn't like the outcome. There is considerable doubt the lynchee was guilty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank#Jim_Conley

33 posted on 04/08/2010 2:45:17 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: SuperLuminal

Also I’d like to point out that once if too often.

People are pretty often wrongly convicted in a trial. Without a trial it is reasonable to assume the chance of error increases.


36 posted on 04/08/2010 2:55:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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