[Chad Fairbanks]

What gets me is, these guys havn't even been tried, let alone found guilty in these crimes - Hey Brady! WAnna wait until guilt is proven? Talk about tainting the jury pool... any defense lawyer worth a damn will be all over this...

[foxylady]

There are a lot of reasons this lawsuit is dumb, but the fact that it's filed before criminal cases are completed isn't one of them. (In many instances, although not here, a civil plaintiff would be obligated to file before criminal cases ended, or be cut off by statutes of limitation. What would you have them do - sit and wait until the person is convicted in the criminal case, and then say that's great, too bad it's too late for me to sue now?)

A complaint in a civil lawsuit, like an indictment, is just an allegation. It's not proof of anything. How in the heck does the Brady people alleging a bunch of things "taint the jury pool" when the prosecutors are alleging the very same thing? It doesn't. Go ask a defense lawyer, and you'll be told this is all completely meaningless to the criminal case. There are lots of valid reasons to blast this lawsuit - let's not make up frivolous ones.

[FreeTally]

What gets me is, these guys havn't even been tried, let alone found guilty in these crimes - Hey Brady! WAnna wait until guilt is proven?

Although I agree with your sentiments, this is just typical. The Brown's and Goldman's filed civil suit against O.J. Simpson before he ever went to trial in criminal court, and still won even after he was acquitted.

I totally disagree that law should be separated in this manner. As a matter of the criminal proceedings, if the defendant is found guilty, the victim should be allowed to gain recourse, and only if the person is found guilty. But I heavily disagree that they should be separate matters. Something is either civil, or its criminal. A person shouldn't get two chances in different courts with different thresholds of proof to "get" somebody for the same crime.

[Puppage]

Maybe they can sue Chevrolet because their product was so easily MODIFIED INTO A SNIPERS PERCH?

The car is obviously TOO BIG for our own good. Ban it like the .50 cal rifles.Aren't THEY too big?