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To: Bill who wrote (103242)	12/6/2000 2:13:55 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

From The Onion.... News In Brief -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gore Calls For Recount Of Supreme Court Vote WASHINGTON, DC-- An increasingly desperate Al Gore called for a recount Tuesday of the U.S. Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. "There is reason to suspect that these nine votes were not properly counted and that as many as five justices who sided with Mr. Bush did not intend to do so," Gore said. "It is therefore in the best interest of our democracy for the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend judgment in this case until we can be absolutely certain that this court did, in fact, intend to rule in Mr. Bush's favor." Gore added that if his recount request is denied, he will file an appeal with the Interplanetary Supreme Court.

To: Bill who wrote (103242)	12/6/2000 2:15:04 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

e-bill, are you changing your position that you need not have a trial to have a felon? I seem to remember a knock-down drag out fight with you over this about 4 months ago. I'll take your statement as your admission that you were wrong. Thank you. e-bill posted: >>LOL! How could it be a felony if no one was tried and convicted? You don't know the law! Hahahaha!! <<

To: Bill who wrote (103242)	12/6/2000 2:30:38 PM
From: swisstrader	Respond to of 769667

The term felony, in American law, has lost this point of distinction; and its meaning, where not fixed by statute, is somewhat vague and undefined; generally, however, it is used to denote an offense of a high grade, punishable either capitally or by a term of imprisonment. In Massachusetts, by statute, any crime punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison, and no other, is a felony; so in New York. the tendency now is to obliterate the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors; and this has been done partially in England, and completely in some of the States of the Union. The distinction is purely arbitrary, and its entire abolition is only a question of time. Note: There is no lawyer who would undertake to tell what a felony is, otherwise than by enumerating the various kinds of offenses which are so called. originally, the word felony had a meaning: it denoted all offenses the penalty of which included forfeiture of goods; but subsequent acts of Parliament have declared various offenses to be felonies, without enjoining that penalty, and have taken away the penalty from others, which continue, nevertheless, to be called felonies, insomuch that the acts so called have now no property whatever in common, save that of being unlawful and purnishable. J. S. Mill. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.