Re: [News] Cartoon blamed for youth's fatal beating on mom

>From: "Jorge Pratt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Date: 12/2/2003 10:51 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>"Scott Dubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> "Neo-Era" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > Not with Japan's 99+% conviction rate, they won't.
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>> Is that a real statistic?  Because if it was, I'd say Japan's pretty
>> messed up.  That's guilty until proven inoccent.  That's Orwellian.
>> Why bother with lawyers?
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>Because by 2015 there won't *be* any lawyers, so they're just jumping the
>gun ;)
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>Seriously, though? I think that the 99% conviction rate refers to proven
>criminals, not mere suspects. There *are* places where bulletproof cases
>can't get a conviction even though everyone knows the perpertrator is
>guilty, be it through technicalities, legal loopholes or faulty
>investigative procedures.
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>The "messed up" part is about right, though.
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>The Zephyr
>(A virtual cookie to those who get the above reference.)

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(that particular year), but it'd be too general . . .


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