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First post - so please go gentle! A friend who's open to the idea of homeopathy gleefully pointed out an article that appeared in the Sunday Telegraph (in the UK) entitled: Homeopathy Wins in Test With Medicine, knowing that I've always been rather skeptical that it can be anything more than...

I am wondering about the responsibilities of a judge in a case where the defendant has asked for a judge trial instead of a jury trial. If a judge has doubt is he allowed to do his own investigation. Specifically, is he allowed to reconvene the court room at the crime scene after the defense...

I'm no conspiracy nut, but I'd like to take the pulse of the group here on whether or not you think Saddam will make it to trial. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8298669/ Will he meet his end in his cell before trial? Will he be allowed to speak freely in court? If you think the Downing Street...

I was wondering what the status of these considerations are around the world. I noted that in Aruba you can evidentially be locked up with no charges for 4 months. Skipping about the internet I found this interesting discussion: I wonder what is legally permissable for other countries. I...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606533.stm ...full article I know some of the "right-wing"/religous extremists in America must salivate over the thought of sending people to jail for disrespecting religion.

According to instruction given by US judges, the jury is only responsible for determing the guilt or innocent of the defendant according to the law. The jury is not supposed to consider whether the law is constitutional or just. The jury is also not supposed to be involved in or consider the...

MJ Trial - a different issue I hadn't been following the MJ trial until I entered into a discussion here that involved it, since then I've been paying a bit more attention to it. One of the things that I have heard and just been reading about is this testimony of ex employees and associates...

The "Successful Homeopathic Trial" thread has now been viewed nearly 6,000 times; it seems quite likely that hundreds of lurkers have been following it. I'm interested in how the thread has influenced the views of these lurkers (IMO, people who have participated in the thread will be unable to...

NC Republican wants Iraq pullout He started getting "fed up" on November 3, 2004 I'd guess. And now let's see how Bush's political case for an Iraq pullout demonstrates much more thorough planning and skillful execution than the Iraq occupation ever enjoyed.

What do you think of this: Full text article Cheers, Hans

NOVA reran this 2002 episode last night. It presented several arguments about Neandertal's relationship to modern humans. Here is what I gathered from the show (which I may or may not be relaying accurately): 1. mtDNA evidence suggests Neandertals and modern humans are cousins who shared are...

Late October/early November, perhaps. Gee, I wonder if anything else might be happening in a few weeks? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iraqi Minister: Saddam Faces Trial Soon Monday September 6, 2004 2:16 AM KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Saddam...

I mean in the Free World (Nazi and Stalinist kanagroo courts don't count). What's been going on in the Hamburg courts recently is just breathtaking. Only one person in the world, a man named Motassadek, has ever been convicted of involvement in 9/11. He was jailed last year, on the most...

A good day for Reason and Critical Thought, the most famous creationist/evolutionary fight in history. 1925. It has been this long and still there are those who cling to superstition. I wonder if reason will ever be enough. In Contact Sagan had his protagonist queried "Do you think 98% of...

Listening to (translations of) Saddam's comments, I can't help but think Bush & his administration use the same tactics to excuse all their own swarmy actions. Bush wishes he had the speaking ability & an understanding of human psychology of that guy who "tried to kill my dad"... Saddam. Not...

Is there something fundamentally wrong with a legal system that allows a person to be imprisoned for eight years without being brought to trial for anything? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3520819.stm

Well, so a couple of weeks ago I feel a cold coming on. Being it was my last week of work, I know how it would look if I called in sick. So I say I'm going to hit it with everything I can before it gets bad. Keep in mind this was the very first day I felt the slightest symptoms. So I go to...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=1&u=/nm/20040120/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_trial_dc Some Iraqis want to see American leaders on trial, since the US supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war.

{{Note this is not taking place in some foreign communist country. It's happening in Philadelphia.)) http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/82004d.asp

Just kill the fat bastard already. Better yet, toss him into a angry mob and let they go all old school on him. That'll freak out despots around the world. Lets face it, war crime trails/tribunals or whatever you want to call them are nothing more than Kangaroo Courts. Always have been always...