>It may be a priceless victory for legal scholars and trail lawyers, but it
>is a technicality for most ordinary people not versed in legal nuances.
>Most ordinary people want "justice" - meaning punishment of those who by
>common understanding violated the law or social norms, and NOT letting
>those who "did it" walk on procedural technicalities a.k.a "due process."
Wojtek, sometimes you're kind of scary. A fair trial is a "technicality"? There was a time when "ordinary people not versed in legal nuances" committed lynchings. Surely that's not what you have in mind. But what do you have in mind?
Doug