Legalistics

[Dan Goncharoff]

Pleading guilty in open court would help. Confessions can be retracted.

DanG

On 5/19/2010 8:14 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:
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> Is there a lawyer in the house? Or a journalist?
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> Faisal Shahzad has reportedly confessed to being the Times Square =
> (almost) bomber.  There is no reason to believe he is falsely =
> confessing. Yet every media source refers to him as either the Times =
> Square bombing "suspect", or the "alleged" Times Square bomber.
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> At what point can we drop the qualifications, and call him what he has =
> confessed to being? =20
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> Bill Palmer
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