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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
I view the OP'S repetitive referral to his 224 613 project circumstances as an attempt to get some closure on a situation that has gone on for decades. I wish him luck with that.
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Not exactly. And it involves a lot more than just me. I wish people would see that.
In law school at the University of Minnesota, there was a brilliant trial lawyer who taught evidence. I had someone else as I could not get into the Evidence Course taught by him as the 3rd Years had the first choices of what courses to take to meet their Graduation requirements.
This trial lawyer was Irving Younger. Probably one of best trial lawyers in New York at one time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Younger
He held out that trial practice was akin to theater. The best story teller will win the case.
If you make the Jurors though very educated people about the law, that makes this approach a lot harder.
The same can be said of survivors/victims. Access to more timely and practical information gives them more power over things that they cannot control. I became a law librarian to do something about a niche I saw in practical information in libraries while trying to follow the Michelle Mitchell murder investigation which it turns out was messed up thoroughly by people trying to get closure too fast as they convicted the wrong person around 1979 based on her false confession. She was a paranoid schizophrenic and if I recall correctly part of a gay couple. I am fuzzy on the details as this is about what is in libraries and accessible over the Internet right now.
Charges Dismissed Against Cathy Woods for 1976 Murder