From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 01:18:43 +0800
To: TruthMonger.tm@dev.null
Subject: Re: There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of
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>   A major nail in the coffin of Justice for any accused in the U.S.
> 
> was when the justice system promoted the concept of guilt by virtue
> 
> of "circumstantial" evidence to the point where people can now be
> 
> convicted as a result of speculation rather than evidence. Prosecutors
> 
> now seem to need only to convince the sheeple that it was "possible"
> 
> for the defendant to have commited the crime and that circumstantial
> 
> evidence points *only* to the accused.
> 

Yeah, right. Must be how O.J. got convicted in criminal court. Ooops - 
just remembered that he walked. Maybe Bell can beat the wrap with a good 
stiff-arm and a few Hertz commercials ...