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   From: forget@it.com   
      
   Theodore A. Kaldis wrote:   
   > Ken Smith wrote:   
   >   
   >>[Abridged version; my seriatim response is huge, and few will care to   
   >>follow it in such gruesome detail.  Still, I am sure the good people at the   
   >>LA County DA's office   
   >   
   > [If indeed there are any there.]   
   >   
   >>will find your claims regarding the case to be quite helpful, so I've sent   
   >>a copy to their PIO [...]   
   >   
   > Did you now?  This is [presumably] EXACTLY the sort of behaviour that   
   > horrified the Bar Examiners' Board, and is quite likely the fundamental   
   > reason that they asked you to submit to a psychological examination.   
      
      Question: You have information which may either (a) help to convict a   
   cold-blooded child-killer or (b) exonerate an innocent man.  You are not   
   burdened by any confidences that would prevent you from coming forward.   
   Should you disclose that information to the authorities (as I have done)   
   -- or should you remain silent?   
      
      What is the lawyerly thing to do?  What is the Christian thing to do?   
   What is the *right* thing to do?   
      
      Is the act of disclosure so wrong that it is prima facie evidence of   
   mental instability, as Ted insists?  What would Jesus do (aside from go   
   on being dead)?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)