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Aug. 26th, 2005 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAh, yes, the brilliance of juries.
Darrin Fernandez is serving a 10-to-15 year sentence for rape - he climbed a fire escape and went through an open window in Boston and raped a girl in 2000, and was convicted in 2003.
He's had *two* hung juries on another rape case where, 8 months after, in the same neighbourhood as the first case, a man climbed a fire escape, entered through an open window, and raped the girl. DNA evidence matches Darrin Fernandez exactly - there is absolutely no question that the DNA matches his precisely - but the juries have hung because they can't prove it *wasn't* his identical twin brother.
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Woman finds lost dog by leaving a pile of her clothes where the dog was last seen.
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Ah, science: fighting West Nile Virus by making the mosquitos piss themselves to death.
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Wal-Mart. Leading the world in useful web technology! Why, on their site, no matter WHAT you search for, they take you to "Bibles" first.
Try it out.
Yes, it's a trick. It's still a funny one. My favourite is
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=416096&redirect_query=toilet+paper
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Also at Wal-Mart: A man walks in in a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs, asking to buy a hacksaw. What would you do?
Darrin Fernandez is serving a 10-to-15 year sentence for rape - he climbed a fire escape and went through an open window in Boston and raped a girl in 2000, and was convicted in 2003.
He's had *two* hung juries on another rape case where, 8 months after, in the same neighbourhood as the first case, a man climbed a fire escape, entered through an open window, and raped the girl. DNA evidence matches Darrin Fernandez exactly - there is absolutely no question that the DNA matches his precisely - but the juries have hung because they can't prove it *wasn't* his identical twin brother.
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Woman finds lost dog by leaving a pile of her clothes where the dog was last seen.
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Ah, science: fighting West Nile Virus by making the mosquitos piss themselves to death.
====================================================
Wal-Mart. Leading the world in useful web technology! Why, on their site, no matter WHAT you search for, they take you to "Bibles" first.
Try it out.
Yes, it's a trick. It's still a funny one. My favourite is
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=416096&redirect_query=toilet+paper
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Also at Wal-Mart: A man walks in in a prison jumpsuit and handcuffs, asking to buy a hacksaw. What would you do?
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Date: 2005-08-26 05:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-26 05:23 pm (UTC)He was convicted the first time because he has a tattoo that his brother does not. The second victim never saw a tattoo.
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Date: 2005-08-26 05:42 pm (UTC)Someone took a hefty "Mistaken Identity" Flaw.
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Date: 2005-08-26 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-26 09:46 pm (UTC)Are the juries allowed to know about the previous conviction? Without that, and it really is circumstantial at best, it's really frickin' hard to consider it proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Unless the identical twin can be proven to have been elsewhere.
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Date: 2005-08-28 11:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-28 11:57 am (UTC)What's the trick?
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Date: 2005-08-28 03:04 pm (UTC)catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=416096&redirect_query=toilet+paper
Edit that bit right there.
Anything else resets the catalog.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=416096&redirect_query=satan