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Or you now have 299,999,700 probable negatives, and 300 possible positives to review for motive, method, and opportunity before you start looking at/for alibis.
by dmckeon 7y ago
Or you now have 299,999,700 probable negatives,
and 300 possible positives to review for motive,
method, and opportunity before you start looking
at/for alibis.
- nothal 7y agoUnless you've got a cold case, that seems like more potential suspects than a general person may reasonably have.
- jessaustin 7y agoOh yeah, lots of American police want to work this hard; there's probably five or six of them at least. What most police will do instead is arrest the first name on the list. When she or he documents an alibi, they'll arrest the second name on the list. Eventually, some poor bastard who lives in the same state will have gone hiking alone the day of the crime, or stayed home and slept after a week of overtime, or whatever. Unless there is a statistician on the jury, that person is going to prison.
- Simon_says 7y agoStatisticians probably get excluded in jury selection, along with anybody else whose profession indicates they have a clue. https://www.quora.com/Are-engineers-usually-excused-from-jury-duty-or-is-this-just-a-myth https://www.quora.com/Are-engineers-usually-excused-from-jur...