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Emotion Vs. Reason
This concerns the decision of not guilty by the jury in the Lee Anderson case. Emotions about that verdict have not been as high since the O.J. Simpson trial and the same jury decision of not guilty. Emotions were greatly enlarged by the media, with its repeated showing of the guards taking Anderson to the ground. The problem with making judgment on the basis of emotion and not on the evidence (especially if the jury does so) is that we then lose the basis of equality under the law. ...more
October 23, 2007
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