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* How in the bloody blue hell did Poe get convicted of murder? His pregnant wife was threatened by a bunch of thugs in a bar parking lot. That should have been an open-and-shut case of self defense, military training or not. |
* How in the bloody blue hell did Poe get convicted of murder? His pregnant wife was threatened by a bunch of thugs in a bar parking lot. That should have been an open-and-shut case of self defense, military training or not. |
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** http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118880/faq |
** http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118880/faq |
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*** There are ''multiple'' problems with that explanation. First off, a guilty plea is accompanied by a full confession of the alleged crime and its circumstances from the defendant, which would contain precisely the 'evidence of self-defense' that that FAQ claims was never be introduced. Second: a judge cannot use evidence from a defendant's statement during a plea-bargain against that defendant while simultaneously reneging on the terms of the plea. |
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** Alternate and/or additional explanation to the above: Anti-military biased judge. |
** Alternate and/or additional explanation to the above: Anti-military biased judge. |
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