From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:16:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN] (fwd)
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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:59:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
> Subject: Re: Elder Kennedy ordered to tesify to Grand Jury (if you can call it that) [CNN]

> Why would this be "unconstitutional?"

Juries are to be composed of your peers taken from the community in which
the crime occurred. A single judge doesn't make a jury of ones peers.

> Are you at all familiar with the case? There seems to be a fair amount of 
> evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that would indicate a certain 
> politically and financially powerful family used its influence to keep 
> the two prime suspects in the case from coming to trial for over 20 
> years.

Irrelevant, one doesn't throw away the justice system because it might have
been abused. One wrong does not justify another.

> One judge is better than nothing. OTOH, maybe a football, a few pine 
> trees, and some vertical slope would do justice. 

Actualy 10 guilty men walking free is better than one innocent man in jail,
or a justice system that gets abused.

> (Or do you think there should be a statute of limitations involved?) 

Irrelevant.


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