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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "capnbob@..."
<capnbob@...> wrote:
>
> I was listening to a call-in radio show Sunday
morning on my way
to work and the guest was Dennis
> Lahane. He, along with George Pelecanos and about
five other
writers had announced they would never
> find anyone guilty of a drug charge of any kind if
they were
empaneled on a jury. Sounds like a
> ploy to get out of jury duty, but they're
serious.
I'm not sure that I blame them. I've not been empaneled
several times since I won't give anyone the death penalty,
and I have sympathy for this line of reasoning as well...even
if it is a Capone on tax evasion kind of situation, this is
not how to deal with the problem of addiction or recreational
pharma.
But this is at least a step away from dealing with the
literature, and I'd hate to see us find a new way to
encourage the namecallers to namecall.
Todd Mason
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