Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/06/06 18:01

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:35:50 GMT, Paul Hyett
<pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:

>>That British nanny who was tried for that little kid's death was
>>exonerated by the judge when the jury returned a murder conviction.

>I thought that he was referring to a judge overruling a jury to pass a
>guilty verdict, rather than vice versa.

He may have been. My comment was to support his claim that in some
states a judge can override the jury.

Needless to say, those are not common law states.


--

"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world."
--Clarence Darrow

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