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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (6561)	1/29/2002 1:34:47 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

again, I am not saying that Junta should have gotten a walk on this. He did wrong, he should get an appropriate punishment. The question is "what is appropriate?". We may just disagree on this one.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (6561)	1/29/2002 2:19:57 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

It's true that the guy that Junta killed got in Junta's face... That is misleading. He did more than that. Even the prosecution's witnesses agreed that it was the victim who escalated a verbal confrontation into a physical one; i.e., he struck the first blow. If you want to liken this to your road-rage incident, I think you would have to say that the woman tried to deliberately run the man off the road, first. Then you would have to say that they both continued trying to run each other off the road. Moreover, you would probably need to change the woman to a another man. Then it might be roughly comparable. In this now-hypothetical case, the court outcome might have been different, don't you think?