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minorvogonpoet Started conversation Nov 17, 2020
You've obviously done your research.
Is this a real case?
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 17, 2020
Yes! I recreated the testimony from the summary in print. I believe it was the first murder trial in the county.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 18, 2020
It kinda made me think of the court scene in "To kill a mockingbird," which was reenacted in a courtroom in Dedham (Mass.) one year when the whole town was reading the book.
I also think about the makeshift trial at the end of "Oklahoma." Justice is variable in different places and times. I enjoy seeing the different ways people work out their plans for seeing justice done. Not that I'd enjoy being put in the stocks for a day 
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Maybe there wasn't a lot of time for finding jurors who weren't friends of the Greens? Or maybe it didn't matter, as the jurors put aside whatever friendsips/enmities they may have had, and came up with what seemed a just verdict.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 18, 2020
There will be some follow-up at the end. But my source seemed to think they got off easy - so did the town in general.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 18, 2020
Death as a result of land disputes does not seem so far-fetched to me.
War is such a dispute on a large scale. Mostly, I hope land disputes are settled with less violence, or no violence at all.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 18, 2020
Over a little piece of timber land? Back then, with all that forest? I don't think so. 
Those guys were just crazy mean. Some people are.
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