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To: BGR who wrote (38891)	6/9/2000 4:51:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42523

I am curious as to why you are lecturing me on the legal system, particularly when you keep getting it wrong. What the civil jury system does is offer a forum for resolving factual disputes that are not capable of objective resolution, e.g., whether the light was red or green when the defendant went through the intersection. The jury makes its determination based on their "feel" for the credibility of the witnesses. That doesn't make their determination the truth, it just resolves the lawsuit. Their findings are not binding on anyone who isn't a party to the suit (or their successors in interest, etc., but let's not go there). No one could ever proceed with a lawsuit to determine whether the sun rises in the east or in the west. The judge will take judicial notice of the objective fact that the sun rises in the east, and dismiss it. You won't even get to the jury without a genuine issue of contested fact. Scientific truth, which hopefully is objective truth, is determined by the consensus of scientists, not jurors.