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echo: ufo
to: PAUL ANDINACH
from: RON TAYLOR
date: 1997-12-15 15:05:00
subject: Circumstantial evidence

PA> RT> Name a case where a subject was convicted when no evidence of a crime
  > RT> exists other than eye witness accounts of the act.
PA> RT> Your hypothetical example involved alleged murder.  What case can you
  > RT> cite that shows someone convicted of unlawful homicide when there is
  > RT> no corpse, no missing person, and no other evidence that a murder
  > RT> happened.
PA>   I could mention the Salem witch trials.
I suppose so.  And, does anyone today really believe that any of the
people executed were actual witches?
PA>   I could, but I won't, because there are people who would be upset by 
he
  >idea that there's some comparison between witch sightings and UFO 
sightings.
Only the futility of trying to convince someone that circumstantial
evidence is nothing without substantiation.  The witch trials were a
product of hysteria and paranoia.  Hmmmmm.... sound a lot like a UFO
sighting.
Ron
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