There's something wrong about this... - Page 2

TheMercenary · 12-30-2010, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Or going to school here.

I hope they all go to your state and enroll in your school.... Really.

Lamplighter · 12-31-2010, 08:55 PM

ABC News
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Dec. 30, 2010

Supporters Applaud Plan to Release Scott Sisters in Kidney Deal
Gladys and Jamie Scott Were Given Life Sentences for an Armed Robbery

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Backers have long claimed that the women, who are African-American,
were innocent and their life prison sentences for an armed robbery
-- reportedly for $11 -- were tinged with racism

BUT...

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Barbour said their release was contingent on Gladys Scott, now 36, donating a kidney to her sister.

NEXT DAY... Action -> Reaction

ABC News
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Dec. 31, 2010

Scott Sisters Kidney Donation Threatens Organ Transplant Laws
Governor's Deal Violates 50-Year-Old Donation Laws Outlawing Coercion and Rewards;

AND... What If Sisters Aren't a Match?

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As jubilant supporters await the release of Gladys and Jamie Scott, who brokered a bargain
with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to get early prison release by undergoing an organ transplant,
medical ethicists are crying foul.

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On Thursday, the governor signed an order that suspended the Scott sisters' life sentences
as long as Gladys, 36, who is healthy, donates her kidney to Jamie, 38, who has been on dialysis.
The women have been imprisoned for the past 16 years on charges of masterminding an armed robbery.

zippyt · 12-31-2010, 11:00 PM

monster · 01-13-2011, 09:45 PM

Nope, that's not reasonable doubt in my mind. Unanimous is unrealistic. I doubt it's that hard to nobble one jury member, and I'm sure as hell certain that one wacko with a weird agenda could fake it through jury selection.

monster · 01-13-2011, 09:47 PM

I seem to think that -in the uk- the judge can instruct the jury as to what majority they require for each case...... I have no idea if that's the case here.

Happy Monkey · 01-21-2011, 05:32 PM

Criminal trials in the US require a unanimous verdict.

Lamplighter · 01-21-2011, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Criminal trials in the US require a unanimous verdict.

That's my problem with this verdict... It's from a Court here in Oregon !

12-31-2010, 11:00 PM	#3
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	__________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

01-13-2011, 09:45 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Nope, that's not reasonable doubt in my mind. Unanimous is unrealistic. I doubt it's that hard to nobble one jury member, and I'm sure as hell certain that one wacko with a weird agenda could fake it through jury selection. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-13-2011, 09:47 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I seem to think that -in the uk- the judge can instruct the jury as to what majority they require for each case...... I have no idea if that's the case here. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-21-2011, 05:32 PM	#6
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Criminal trials in the US require a unanimous verdict. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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