SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING

 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Lane3 who wrote (3694)3/20/2002 2:12:18 PM
From: Solon   of 21057
 
I disagree that the chance is very small. The inference I make from the corruption, incompetence, and human "frailty" that Dithers refers to, and that I have often witnessed, is that the chance is very high. And it is a chance which provides no benefit in the taking of...

I gave 5 Canadian examples yesterday. I provided details on one of them (Morin). There is not a chance in Hell he would have been exonerated without the technology of DNA. In another country, and a few years earlier, he would have been DEAD. It was only luck, caprice, circumstance, and adventitious support which saved his life.

When one looks at the huge number of exonerations one is struck by the capricious nature of the whole affair, and one is reminded of the Republican and Democrat representatives trying to decide if a chad is going to count or not...hold it up to the sunlight...

OK, I take that back. The justice system is far more intelligent than the political system. I trust both of them implicitly...<ggg>
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext