SC - Re:New Cookbook

[Decker, Terry D.]

Agreed, but being arrested and charged does not mean a person has done
the crime with which they are charged.

Lizzie Borden was charged with the crime and acquitted by a jury for
lack of evidence.  She was not released on a technicality.  The evidence
was inconclusive, and there is every likelyhood that another party did
commit the crimes (there being the sister, the Irish maid and the
ubiquiteous transient stranger to choose from, sorry, no butler).  The
view that she was guilty of the Fall River Ax Murders comes more from
her villification in the popular press than from the evidence.

The murders are still unsolved.

Bear 

>Cariadoc probably knows this better than I (I would expect so) but being 
>acquitted of a crime does not necessarily mean that you did not perform a 
>particular deed. As an example, I have known people arrested for trespass 
>and resisting arrest. The law of trespass hereabouts requires, in effect, 
>that you ignore a policeman telling you to leave. Said persons stated to 
>the police that they had not heard the request to leave (this was at a 
>Uni sit-in) and therefore were not trespassing, but were merely in the 
>room. Since they did not break in, they could not be charged over how 
>they got there. Therefore there were no grounds for an arrest, and the 
>charges of resisting (which they freely admitted they did) were dropped.
>
>Charles
>
>On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>> >Look what Lizzie Borden did over a bit of spoiled mutton.
>> 
>> If you are referring to the ax murders, look a little deeper.  Lizzie
>> Borden was acquitted in a court of law, therefore, by our rules, she
>> didn't do a thing. :-)
>> 
>> Bear
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