Republicans want pensions for criminals

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I think John R.'s point, with which I agree, is: there's a potentially big difference between what a grand jury "thinks" and what a trial jury thinks. I use quotes around "thinks" in the grand jury context because grand juries so rarely reject prosecutor's recommendations to indict that they are, for all intents and purposes, rubber stamps of the prosecutor. And as John said, they only hear what the prosecutor cherry-picks for them to hear, in proceedings which are secret. A trial jury, of course, hears both sides of the story in a trial open to the public.

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The Duke Lacrosse - Rape case looks like a prime example.

Getting back to DeLay. Is it true that the charges that were thrown out, involved his breaking laws which had not yet been enacted at the time he supposedly broke those laws?

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The Duke Lacrosse - Rape case looks like a prime example.

Getting back to DeLay. Is it true that the charges that were thrown out, involved his breaking laws which had not yet been enacted at the time he supposedly broke those laws?

Ex post facto laws are, per the Constitution (Art. I Sec. 9), illegal. Unfortunately, Congress has seemed to forget that...

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