Who? The plaintiffs or the defendants?
Seems to me that the defendants' attorneys, if they got Jimmy C on the stand, could ask him any number of embarrassing questions about HIS responsibility as Commander-in-Chief regarding imperial adventures and covert ops during his term in office. Then they could argue, "If you find against these defendants, you would have to find against the President of the United States as well."
Which I sort of feel was in the back of the juror's minds, anyway.
BTW, I think if you move this trial out of the South or Southwest, you get a different verdict. But this is bad news nonetheless...
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin" <bauerperrin at mindspring.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Nun Killers Walk Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:17:52 -0400
Yep, nothing like good ol' American justice! Why didn't they call Jimmy Carter to the stand?
DP
>2 Ex-Salvador Generals Cleared by U.S. Jury in Nuns' Deaths
>http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/04/world/04SALV.html
>
>November 4, 2000
>
>By DAVID GONZALEZ
>
>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 3 A federal jury today cleared two
>retired Salvadoran generals of responsibility in the abduction,
>rape and murder of four American churchwomen by members of El
>Salvador's National Guard in 1980. The jury said the two men could
>not have done anything more to prevent the crime... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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