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Originally Posted by Ivas
If I might ask, just exactly how did you know "he was guilty from the start", were you privy to the case? Hell, I'm lucky to know if my wife is clowning me or not. Larger issues are pretty much beyond my ken.
It always seemed to me that someone's guilt or innocence is a pretty weighty matter that those lesser involved folk need to be careful not to impugn. Juries, including Coroner's Juries, have important rôles to play in our democracy, eh?
'Course, what the hell do I know?:(
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I firmly believe in our system of innocent until proven guilty, and agree with you that we couldn't possibly know he was guilty - until now. I do think this horrendous act was confirmation.
I find it interesting that the children's maternal grandparents waited until now to say they "knew" he would do something like this. If they knew he would, and had expressed it to the courts with any kind of basis other than "gut", then the visits would have been denied, not supervised...
I feel sorry for everyone involved. Even Josh Powell - I can't even imagine what kind of mental illness, deep guilt, or whatever it was that ran through his mind as he planned the death of his kids.