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bluepanda -> RE: This election and the 2nd Amendment. (11/2/2008 7:42:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Joenextdoor
A man convicted with crystal clear DNA evidence, and/or solid eyewitness evidence or other solid evidence, should not sit on death row for 20 years while his lawyers make a mockery of the legal system at taxpayer expense. In these cases, give them 60 days for their lawyer to make one last appeal, and if that is lost, 24 hours to have visitations prior to it being carried out. For the others who are convicted on less than solid evidence, I think we could be patient while their lawyers run the appeals process, as long as they don't make a mockery of the system in the process.
That was one of the most astoundingly ignorant misinterpretations of the Constitution that I've ever read, and in a week where the republican candidate for vice president is on record as saying that the constitutional right to free speech means that it's unconstitutional for the press to criticize politicians, that's really saying a lot. Mind you, I'm not calling you ignorant, but that was an absolutely amazingly ignorant thing to say. What you just said is that instead of being required to find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, courts should be able to convict people for different levels of guilt - "definitely, really most sincerely guilty" and "we're really pretty sure he's guilty but what the hell we may be wrong, so let's play it safe just in case." Thank god that most of the people who write our laws have a better understanding of what this country is all about than you do.
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