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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (53677)	11/20/2006 10:47:08 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 90947

"Being caught resonding with unsupportable ideas is hardly an excuse for being rude" That sentence is very rude. It insults and accuses without cause. But you will be happy to know that it does not bother me. I sometimes wonder why so many people on SI seem to need a mommy. I certainly do not. You can be as rude toward me as you like. It won't spoil my coffee one iota. So SMILE and be HAPPY! :-) "Legal (or illegal) is often a matter of a good lawyer or good timing" "You are again wrong" No, I'm not. If you get off an impaired driving charge because of a great lawyer or one of an infinite number of fortuitous circumstances (a mistake in due process, perhaps), then your driving was not criminal. If you get convicted, then it was. When I say that legal or illegal is often a matter of a good lawyer or good timing--this is what I mean. Also, you catch the judge when she has just been served divorce papers you are not likely to find her receptive to your story in certain circumstances. I think there are probably just as many good lawyers in the United States who increase ones chances of acquittal as there are in Canada. I seem to recall that a fellow in a white van was deemed innocent of murdering his wife. Clumsy lawyers calling inept witnesses would hardly have sufficed. The difference in whether he was deemed a murderer or not had certainly to do with legal timing and talent--as well as myriad details involved in the investigation and the prosecution. "Perhaps Canada's laws are so riddled with loopholes that it is true." I suppose that is meant to be an insult. I don't think, however, that our laws are any more riddled with loopholes than are American laws. It is well known that Americans are a very litigious society, so it stands to reason that your laws would be as convoluted as Canadian laws and that success in court would be associated with legal competence, as it is in Canada.