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Re: ENGLAND IS NOT A DEMOCRACY

Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:40:56 GMT

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news:748f5805-1d13-4631-88ea-0077d0c9aebe@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> On 25 Mar, 09:19, "R. Mark Clayton"
> wrote:
>>
>
> If Gregg v. O'Gara is establishing in law the precedent that we have
> no legal right to say a man has been wrongly convicted, because it
> automatically implies that someone is (a) incompetent or (b) corrupt,
> then we have entered dangerous legal and societal territory in terms
> of the implications for civil liberties in this country.

It is not establishing any such thing. First-instance decisions very rarely
create precedent, and then only persuasively. This decision binds no other
court.

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