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Stompy,
Points well taken.
The evidence we've been given publicly doesn't actually support Averett's understanding of Scott's behavior.
fckm: the courts are certainly established to determine facts and come to a version of truth--nothing more or less.
The judge and jury are "fact-finders" and are not to balance those facts against personal or social considerations. Our court systems are supposed to operate in a vacuum, although I'll be one of the first to admit they don't in practice.
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