From: Tim McNamara on
In article <250620101955394932%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>,
Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:

> So, according to Tim McNamara's playbook, all we need to do is to
> convince the police to destroy all their blood evidence, then we will
> convict a lot more murderers.
>
> Very clever.
>
> Mark-

Good grief, Mark, you're *really* losing it.

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From: Tim McNamara on
In article <250620101949453685%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>,
Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:

> In article <timmcn-20F324.15491725062010(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>, Tim
> McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote:
>
> > > Part of that incompetence is the direct result of the police dept as
> > > a whole of being rotten logic puzzle solvers.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > > blood + (bad preservation environment) + (murderer going free)
> > >
> > > ...meant absolutely nothing to the incompetent police "professionals"
> > > handling the case, because they were lousy at
> > > connecting-the-simple-dots.
> > >
> > > By contrast, logic puzzle solvers are good at connecting-the-dots.
> >
> > You're making a lot of of logical errors, Mark, including making
> > assumptions and then believing them to be objective truth. In fact, you
> > are doing this so much- and seem so unaware of it- that it calls into
> > question *your* competence at logic.
>
> By George, I think you are right, I will remedy my faulty logic:
>
> blood + (bad preservation environment) + (murderer convicted)
>
> There, did that straighten out my previous flawed logic?

No. It would take a lot more than sarcasm, for one thing.

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From: Mike Rosenberg on
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> > > > OJ got off because Mark Fuhrman was corrupt pig.
> > >
> > > Exactly. That's the only reason he got off.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out whether you're serious or sarcastic, Michelle.
>
> Let me restate it without the ambiguous "got off": The reason that OJ was
> acquitted was that Mark Fuhrman rendered the evidence unreliable.

My impression at the time was that he was acquitted because Marcia Clark
bungled the prosecution, and I recall having heard or read interviews
with jury members supporting that notion. "If the gloves don't fit, you
must acquit" really did, according to these jurors, carry a lot of
weight.

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