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Post #320,404 by lincoln 1/21/10 1:42:36 PM Reply	Hey Box - maybe I got Georgians all wrong The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said a Cobb County man sentenced to death may need a new hearing because jurors sent lewd gifts to the trial judge and courthouse bailiff. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court directed the federal appeals court to decide whether Marcus Wellons received a fair trial in light of the fact the jurors who condemned him to death sent chocolate shaped like a penis to Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley and chocolate in the shape of female breasts to the bailiff. The gifts were sent either during the jury's sentencing deliberations or immediately after the 1993 trial, the decision said. source: http://www.ajc.com/n...ad-to-278323.html "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #320,407 by Ashton 1/21/10 3:29:09 PM Reply	Want Disneyland much? Ya GOTS it.
Post #320,409 by boxley 1/21/10 4:38:53 PM Reply	so maybe a death sentence isnt appropriate for rape and strangulation of a teenager. No info in the article about guilt or innocence, just the sentence. Its Cobb county, home of the yankee yuppie backward country fucks If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #320,417 by mhuber 1/21/10 9:29:20 PM Reply	Maybe, maybe not that's what trials and judges and the rules regarding both are for. Sounds like a failure to take the process seriously to me. Properly corrected. The decision wasn't that the guy goes free or lives or anything, it was "try again, don't screw it up this time."

Hey Box - maybe I got Georgians all wrong - (lincoln) - (3) - Jan. 21, 2010, 01:42:36 PM EST

Want Disneyland much? Ya GOTS it. -NT - (Ashton) - Jan. 21, 2010, 03:29:09 PM EST

so maybe a death sentence isnt appropriate - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 21, 2010, 04:38:53 PM EST

Maybe, maybe not - (mhuber) - Jan. 21, 2010, 09:29:20 PM EST

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