Posted by Paul Hyett on 11/07/06 10:15

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Mon, 6 Nov 2006, jayembee wrote :

>The criminal trial jury
>"exonerated" OJ Simpson on the charge of murder. Does that mean
>that the law against murder is not binding?

No, because the OJ trial was not a test case. Those are the ones that
set legal precedents.

Another possibility for that is where a long-standing precedent is
overturned because it is it has become irrelevant to modern society.
--
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

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