Reply To: Justice in Balto.?

frumnotyeshivish -“I originally disguised the name of the case in case it was you. Look it up. Some eery similarities to your story. Coincidence it must be… Anyway, we’re going in circles.”

So you’re trying to guess my identity? I think that’s against the rules of the CR. Did it ever occur to you that maybe I know the guy and I used him as an example to make a point? Maybe you shouldn’t post people’s cases without their permission -that’s why I didn’t mention the case specifically. So what is your point regarding that case?

“Here’s a hypo: the kid was bought off (or the like), and the Shomrim were (correctly) trying to cover it up. My money’s there personally. Obviously yours isn’t. It’s not hilchos eidus, its whether self-defense was proved by sufficient evidence, so as to justify the undisputed act of violence that all sides and all witnesses concur on. The prosecution represents the state not the kid.”

Your theory holds no water because the Grandparents control the kid and are suing the parties involved. They are the ones s/o would pay off, not the kid. They could easily have told the kid not to testify and he would listen. But what happenned was he tried to lie because his Grandparents told him to, but on the stand he just couldn’t pull it off. So anything pointing to that this Shomrim guy was the guy doing the assault comes from the Shomrim’s guy’s testimony. So why did the Judge only believe half his testimony, esp. in light of the fact that the “victim” didn’t testify and his conscience asked for a dismissal?