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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Nathan,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Only
two of the five ever admitted having actually assaulted or otherwise harmed
anybody. They do seem to have been outdoors in the park on a school night,
which isn’t a good thing, but we have no way of knowing if the other three
committed any crimes at all. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOTEXTLIST \s "E-mail
Signature" <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Christopher Rhoades D˙kema<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:53:58 -0500</span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathanne@nathannewman.org></span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Subject: Re: Manhattan DA on the Central Park jogger</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>- ----- Original Message -----</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick@hotmail.com></span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>I was impressed by the grudging way that Jim Dwyer of the NY Times
provided</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>"news analysis" of this story today, i.e.:<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"More than one person has</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>shrugged at the news that these young men have basically been cleared
of</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>involvement in the rape, remarking that they were not choirboys who had</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>been</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>out chanting vespers in the park that night. They had gone there, as
they</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>admitted, to rob and beat people. And they did, or they watched as
others</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>>did."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/06/nyregion/06ASSE.html></span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Rape is worse than robbing and beating people and it is wonderful work by</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>defense lawyers -- some of whom I know from the NYC Guild -- to show the</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>careless and authoritarian police work that put these people in jail for a</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>crime they didn't commit.</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>That said, there is a big difference in condemning bad police work and</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>having to feel great sympathy for people who were out victimizing others.</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>One does not justify the other, but neither does one cancel out the other,</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>either.</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>I think brutalizers-- whether they wear a badge or not -- deserve little</span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>sympathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think both
deserve due process but that's about all.</span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
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