Text 11741, 31 rader
Skriven 2005-04-17 04:18:41 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
  Kommentar till text 11624 av EARL CROASMUN (1:275/311)
Ärende: Re: Bo Gritz
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Hey, EARL.

-> If I see someone shoot someone,
-> until hate crimes were invented, I merely testify
-> about what that person did
-> and he is sentenced on the basis of what he did.

 EC> If a mutual friend is struggling with a decision of whether to remove
 EC> their baby from a feeding tube, and in over a dozen conversations with
 EC> you someone repeatedly indicates that she thinks it is the right thing
 EC> to do and that SHE would want her feeding tube removed in the same
 EC> circumstance, you can reasonably to the fact that she said that.

 EC> If you and your spouse watched a TV show about people on feeding tubes,
 EC> and she indicated that she would never want to be kept in that state,
 EC> you can reasonably testify to the fact that she said that.

 EC> And if your grandmother had just died, with her death being extended by
 EC> doctors giving life support against her express wishes, and at the
 EC> funeral your spouse indicates that she would not want artificial life
 EC> support and gets you to promise that you will not just leave her there
 EC> in a hospital bed with tubes attached, you can reasonably testify to
 EC> the fact that she said that.

You are not responding to my point that testimony traditionally has been 
about the illegal actions of another, not an attempt to show what he was 
thinking.


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