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That's a viewpoint completely divorced from reality. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 19/11/2014 07:03:07 AM

I don't know enough about the situation in Ferguson to espouse a position on it (although that doesn't appear to have stopped you), but trying every single person who is so much as suspected of murder would grind our legal system to a halt. It would also, in federal cases, be a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment. The case in question is, I believe, a state case, but Missouri also uses a grand jury system. Whether that's a provision of the state constitution, as it is in my state, I don't know. In any event, casually dismissing one of the pillars of criminal law in the US is idiotic.

And the idea of putting on a jury trial for every single police officer who shoots a person is so incomprehensibly stupid that I am having trouble believing you actually stopped to think about that sentence for more than half a second.

This was just an embarrassing post to read, in all.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
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these things should be simple: shoot someone dead -> face a jury trial to determine your guilt - 18/11/2014 11:38:11 PM 1036 Views
That's a viewpoint completely divorced from reality. - 19/11/2014 07:03:07 AM 575 Views
You are 100% correct - 19/11/2014 05:42:34 PM 583 Views
He is facing a jury - 22/11/2014 06:01:28 AM 610 Views

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