QnA 44 Audio!

New listener going back through older things. For the 22nd amendment question about trump conceding 2020, the 22nd amendment sense to say that no person shall be elected President more than twice, not that no person shall serve more than twice. Obviously the standing thing works be an issue either way

I've heard you dis Grand Juries (most recently on Aisle 45, but here too), and I do understand the conceptual difficulties. However, I want to put in a word for an institution that can work well. I served on a Grand Jury here in Massachusetts (Middlesex County). I came away with a tremendous respect for the DAs -- both their ability to present a cohesive story when a case might be presented sporadically as witnesses were not necessarily available the the order one would like to call them, and their sincere empathy for the people who were putatively victims. Yes, it is true that we generally voted a true bill as the DAs requested, but they did generally meet the standard needed to bring someone to trial; and, it is true that sometimes I voted for a true bill where I doubted that there would eventually be evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, but that was not my charge, But I want especially to respond to the "ham sandwich" attack.There were a few cases where the jury found considerable doubt in the State's case, and looked closely at the evidence, and in some cases found the evidence lacking. In the one I remember most vividly, an elderly person on staff at a Divinity School was hurt and probably suffered minimal brain damage during a complicated situation involving many people and unclear witness testimony. There was a vido that had been shot on the scene which we reviews possibly a dozen times, eventually finding that the accused person was not where the most vocal witness had placed him, and that the accident resulted from a crowded situation and was nobody's"fault" . I frankly came away from my months on the Grand Jury with a most stronger respect for our judicial system. ... Of course, this was in Masschusetts

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