Friday, July 23, 2004

Re: Catney's comments (which I'm far too lazy to find a link for - do a
Google News search for Catney if you don't already know what I'm talking
about):

The problem with the possibility of these comments poisoning the trial is
not purely academic. It isn't just some lofty theoretical matter of a
police officer verbally violating the "innocent until proven guilty" precept
even though we all know everything thinks he's the guy. The problem is the
possibility that Chen did, in fact, kill Cecilia Zhang, if he is, in fact, a
psychopathic cold-blooded child murderer from whom society needs to be
protected, and he gets a decent criminal lawyer and walks free because
Catney let his professionalism drop for one minute and poisoned the trial.

No comments: