It certainly would convince me. Which is the problem. If any vaguely post-medieval reader can realize that the jury's decision was just plain wrong, there are two alternatives that I can see: Either a majority of imbeciles have been drafted into jury duty, or the jury knows something we don't. The latter seems the most likely. (Even though as a foreigner, I would get a kick out of believing Americans really were that primitive.)
Ironically, I would have believed it easily if it wasn't so over the top. If there is the slightest doubt, even a Scandinavian jury would let a man off, since people have sex voluntarily under the most offbeat circumstances. It is the lack of any credible doubt that makes me suspicious. "Credo quia absurdum."
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Date: 2007-02-12 05:28 pm (UTC)Ironically, I would have believed it easily if it wasn't so over the top. If there is the slightest doubt, even a Scandinavian jury would let a man off, since people have sex voluntarily under the most offbeat circumstances. It is the lack of any credible doubt that makes me suspicious. "Credo quia absurdum."