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  • A Crime Most Foul (good-looking defendants more likely to walk)

    04/02/2007 1:49:57 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 12 replies · 743+ views
    Townhall ^ | April 2, 2007 | Suzanne Fields
    "Lookism" is a crime most foul in a perfect world devised by radical feminists, though most women will usually overlook the crime when a good-looking man gives them a respectful once-over. But researchers in England, source of our common law, have identified a real crime: Jurors are more likely to convict "ugly" defendants than "attractive" defendants. The investigators are from Bath Spa University in Bath, the lovely Somerset resort where Beau Nash set down rules of polite society and where Chaucer set his morality tale of a witch who gave an errant knight his choice of a wife "foul and...