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From: rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: East meets West, la Choi makes Chinese food, swing - American!
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 16:06:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 16:06:36 1987
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     > From: dm@BFLY-VAX.BBN.COM
     > Subject: Re: East meets West, la Choi makes Chinese food, swing -
	> American!
     > Date: 27 Oct 87 16:19:03 GMT


     > judges and juries are responsible for debugging laws.  Why have a jury
     > of one's peers unless it is to allow the jury to say: ``a law that
     > requires this person to be punished this severely for this action is
     > plainly wrong''?

The reason we have a jury of our (ideally) peers is so that the
decision rendered by that jury be as fair as possible, reached after a 
careful consideration of the facts, and without regard to the social,
physical, economic, religious, or ethnic state of the accused.  The 
task of deciding whether a law is basically fair, I believe, is assigned
to the appeals system, including the Supreme Court.

Bill


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I speak for myself, and not on behalf of any other person or organization
.........................How's that, Gary?
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