DT, you make the excellent points that our informtion is limited to news accounts and that it is the rules of evidence and judicial rulings that determines a verdict. I would add that one other primary determinant is statutes some of which are quite specific and some are rather vague. Of course, you also allude to the quality of prosecution which varies widely across the nation.


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