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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (21331)	6/23/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 769670

There is no evidence because until lately not many have made any real effort to look for that evidence. In the case of rapists, thousands of men were convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence and the testimony of witnesses. Later, the science finally was created which enabled them to prove their innocence "beyond a shadow of a doubt." (Funny, it used to be one had to prove guilt "beyond a shadow of a doubt." As for peers, I sincerely doubt if I was on trial for my life that the jury that weighed my case would be my peers. The juries I've seen have some pretty stupid or emotional people on them. A few would have a hard time thinking their way out of a paper bag. I put no trust in a jury... especially having my life on the line. Plus, if the DA was an experienced, political, dramatic showman, and I had a court-appointed kid, fresh out of a no-name law school, I could be pure as snow and still have a high chance of being convicted after being painted as a soulless monster by the DA.