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From: johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Fate of the FOIA
Message-ID: <6750028@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 91 14:56:42 GMT
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> Consider the old adage about eskimos having ten words for "snow".  An
> eskimo witness might use one of them, and the official translation might be
> "snow".  However, an eskimo juror would hear the original word, and
> understand a more specific connotation than that which the attorneys hear.
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More important is that an eskimo juror would have a truer understanding of
the testimony than the other jurors. One of the reasons that jurors witness
a trial rather than simply read depositions is to pick up on all the body 
language clues that tell whos lying. Seems to me they should have excluded
all the non-bilingul jurors.

BTW: eskimos also have 10 names for oil. They all begin with F and end
in EXXON.

John Eaton
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