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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: epicure who wrote (4103)3/21/2002 10:37:39 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
...to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb

It sounds awesome. But remember the Mississippi civil rights murders? No sooner had a redneck jury done the expected pro-forma acquittal, than the Federal government slapped the defendants with a civil rights violation for the same crime, same facts, same evidence. Some of those convicted in the second trial got 10 years on that charge, a fairly stiff sentence.

Just because we all cheered that some measure of justice was done, doesn't change the fact that those awesome words above had to be twisted like a pretzel to accomplish it.
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