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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Posted Apr 29, 2008 16:32 UTC (Tue) by grahammm (guest, #773)In reply to: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) by bojan Parent article: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)
The jury which convicted him may be his contemporaries, but were they his peers? To be peers indicates equality of quality, rank, standing etc. The comments in the article about the jury's reaction to him indicated that they did not understand him, which makes it very unlikely that they were his peers.
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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 29, 2008 22:16 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] Jurors are human beings, which makes them his peers. PS. It is exactly this kind of elitist garbage that landed him in even more trouble.
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 30, 2008 23:00 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Exactly. `Peers' in this context does not mean `people with the same job' or even `people who think the same way as him', or all corporate fraud would be tried by CEOs, and everyone would get off scot-free. It means `people in the same society', i.e. the people the defendant has to share the world with.
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted May 1, 2008 5:35 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link] "All are equal before the law."
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