RE: Presumption of Guilt?!?! (was RE: restorative justice)

["Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>]

Unbiased juries isn't what the government's worring about.  Here's some
excerpts from the Washington Post:

Prosecutors from Maryland, Virginia and the federal government were
maneuvering yesterday for the first chance to try the sniper shootings case,
with a high-level debate centering on which venue has the best chance of
carrying out the death penalty...

"There ought to be two determining factors above all others," said former
Justice Department official George Terwilliger III. "Where is the strongest
case with the best evidence? And which is the jurisdiction that can most
expeditiously go through a death penalty trial where it has the best chance
of being upheld?"
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Alabama is also putting in a bid, since their law allows them to execute 17
year olds.

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thansen@moscow.com [mailto:thansen@moscow.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: Saundra Lund; hayman@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Presumption of Guilt?!?! (was RE: restorative justice)
>
><snip> If you believe that the defense
> attorneys, the
> prosecutor, and the judge are not goiing to have any problems
> impaneling a non-
> biased jury in Maryland, you are sadly mistaken.  More than
> likely this trial
> will experience a change in venue.  The question is "To where?"
> Of the entire
> nation that has been exposed to media coverage of these killing
> over the past
> few weeks, where can they find a sufficent jury pool that has not
> developed a
> sense of pre-judgement?<snip>
>