Comments on: Some questions and thoughts for everyone. http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/2006/01/23/some-questions-and-thoughts-for-everyone/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:12:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: <![CDATA[Carolina Gonzalez]]> http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/2006/01/23/some-questions-and-thoughts-for-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:13:00 +0000 http://www.fordhamlawhosting.org/blog/?p=103#comment-145 Its both frightening and desirable that the politics of the times can dictate a legal result, reaching far beyond the letter of the law. Frightening where the politics of the times are reprehensible, but desirable in other cases. For example, this morning I read that jury selection has begun for the Enron Trial:<br/><br/>"If we get 12 people who haven't made up their minds, we like our chances," Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling's lead trial lawyer, said after a flurry of failed defense efforts to move the trial elsewhere to escape a potentially hostile jury pool.Michael Ramsey, Lay's lead lawyer, was less optimistic, calling Houston a "bad venue to try to pick a jury." <br/><br/>Perhaps desirable is too strong of a word, but I certainly find it acceptable that Lay and Skilling may face a hostile jury, which may convict them even absent a legal showing of conspiracy or fraud. Its both frightening and desirable that the politics of the times can dictate a legal result, reaching far beyond the letter of the law. Frightening where the politics of the times are reprehensible, but desirable in other cases. For example, this morning I read that jury selection has begun for the Enron Trial:

“If we get 12 people who haven’t made up their minds, we like our chances,” Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling’s lead trial lawyer, said after a flurry of failed defense efforts to move the trial elsewhere to escape a potentially hostile jury pool.Michael Ramsey, Lay’s lead lawyer, was less optimistic, calling Houston a “bad venue to try to pick a jury.”

Perhaps desirable is too strong of a word, but I certainly find it acceptable that Lay and Skilling may face a hostile jury, which may convict them even absent a legal showing of conspiracy or fraud.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Leighton]]> http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/2006/01/23/some-questions-and-thoughts-for-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.fordhamlawhosting.org/blog/?p=103#comment-144 I believe it means that forgiveness combines justice and love by first acknowledging that there was some harmful action that necessitates a response, be it forgiveness or punishment, and then the decision to move past it and overlook it. I believe it means that forgiveness combines justice and love by first acknowledging that there was some harmful action that necessitates a response, be it forgiveness or punishment, and then the decision to move past it and overlook it.

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