Legalistics

[Tom Zurinskas]

I don't understand it either.  Because he confessed, he's not a suspect nor the "alleged" bomber.  He's the bomber.  Enough with the legalistics.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Poster: Bill Palmer
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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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