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17 weeks 13 hours ago	Agree on a couple points	Yeah, juries probably don't listen to instructions, and the burden is different in civil cases. Doesn't change the nature of what a burden is and is not. The plaintiff still has to be the one to get the jurors up to a preponderance. Maybe it works when allocating liability among multiple defendants (haven't really thought about that since school), but I suspect not.
17 weeks 1 day ago	You've missed his point	Each defendant gets a zero baseline, and then the sovereign has to "prove up" each element of a given crime to get a conviction on that charge. That a given proportion of defendants are convicted of a given crime is supposed to have zero bearing on the particular case the juror is hearing. Your way might be an effective method for an observer to use when predicting an outcome, but it's still not the way a juror is supposed to be operating.
20 weeks 1 day ago	Thought this thread would be about a Spartan fan	Ripping a sign you were holding.   Anyway, the sign made me titter, but then I realized that it was stooping to Sparty's level.
23 weeks 2 days ago	It's seriously bizarre	I've now watched Edsall-coached teams twice in person. The first time was my freshman year at a CAA school, where we beat them handily, and it seemed preposterous that they were planning on making the jump to 1-A. Then this season I watched my grad alma mater, an ACC school, beat his Terps handily in College Park. This was ostenibly a rivalry game, and none of the nasty-by-reputation Terps fans even bothered to give me any grief. That he was able to take a CAA also-ran and turn it into a Big East champion, and then can't manage to generate even token enthusiasm at Maryland is really astonishing. I can't see how this wasn't a disasterous hire both for him and for Maryland.
23 weeks 2 days ago	Get. Real.	Neither the refs nor Bettman allowed Staal to score his shorty in Game 4. Neither the refs nor Bettman put Osgood completely out of position on Talbot's second goal in Game 7. And since the Pens had obviously also been to the finals the year before, shouldn't they have been "gassed" as well? Finally, understand that your thesis requires Gary Bettman to be so competent that he can successfully influence the outcome of a really close SCF.
23 weeks 2 days ago	Indeed.	'05-'06 was his rookie season. And even if he's going to share 66's "fate" he'll win a few Rosses, Harts, Conn Smythes, and at least one more Cup before he's done.
23 weeks 3 days ago	Accreditation	Anyone else think that the involvement of senior non-athletic administrators in all of this might really complicate their accreditation? IIRC, Auburn got put on probation for, among other things, the appearance that their president didn't have ultimate authority ofver the athletic department. If the football program's reputation was more important to senior university officials than prevention of violent crimes on campus, and proper federal crime reporting (a big, separate issue), it seems to me they could be in even more trouble than the NCAA or CiC can bring.
24 weeks 1 day ago	During that time period we had a car with an AM-only radio	We lived outside of Richmond, and since my family was never going to listen to Rush L. or "The Sounds of Your Life," we listened to a lot of sports talk radio.  Trust me, the people who called in to those shows hated Beamer. It's crazy that he got through that stretch. This is a genuine imponderable.
24 weeks 2 days ago	Don't hate the Hokies?	That's easy to cure: all you have to do is meet a few. They watch one game a week, think they are the only school in the country with any traditions, and act like college football started in 1995. A clueless, infuriating bunch.
24 weeks 2 days ago	They do hate to be called VaTech	Even though their civilian band (their TAMU-style cadet corps has a band, and they often go to games) has it written on the backs of their idiot uniforms.

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