Court of Public Opinion

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At this point much has been said by the court of public opinion concerning the Casey Anthony Case. She was found not guilty by a court of law with a (12) member jury of her peers. They considered the evidence presented and made a determined verdict of 'NOT GUILTY'.

For those of you that are acquainted with the law of Moses, that the children of Israel were under, please tell us, from the standpoint of that law how this case, involving the death of a child would have been handled. Under the law, how were charges brought against an accused person? On what basis were these charges accepted that were brought by the accuser? What was the principle of the two or three witnesses and what was considered to be a viable and true witness compared to a false or hearsay witness? What was the fate of those that brought false charges against the accused?

Our court system is set up that individuals can bring charges against another, but if proved false the accuser has no consequences. If the law has be violated and a crime has been committed, the state in which it occurs, that represents the people of that state, can accuse and bring charges against the accused, and if proved false or the accused is not found guilty in a court of law, there is not repercussion against the state or against those tried by the state. This is where the justice system gets very subjective because the bar is lowered in the grand jury proceeding to bring the case to court to be tried by a jury of peers.

What are the restraints that our justice system is under in order for them to accuse and bring charges against another without reprisal?

 

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Those that are citizens of this great country that we live in (USA), may one day be accused and charged with a crime that violates the law of this land. It may be a hate crime or an unlawful assembly that is based upon your religious convictions, it may be for adversely effecting your neighbor or invading the privacy or rights of another that resulted in a more severe charge or it may be a false accusation with manufactured evidence that can not be refuted and public opinion is of such a disposition that they want YOUR HEAD on a platter.

Do any of you out there think that a jury member, that found Casey Anthony not responsible for the death of her daughter, should have to quite her job, leave her family and go into hiding because public opinion, outcry and threats has made her fear for her life and nothing is being done about it? We as believers just sit on our 'passive duffs' and do nothing and say little. Isn't it a strange thing to let the majority of the media, that is reporting this case, foster the sediment of the public outrage and nothing be done about it?

The media in my opinion is responsible for creating and promoting this atmosphere of public outrage and fostering this outrage to the point where it is coming very close to what some refer to as 'Tyranny of the Majority'. I believe it is a great sin of the public who has engaged in presuming against this woman who was judged and set free in a court of law by a jury of her peers, who showed no favoritism or sentimentality toward the accused. If any born again believer is a part of that 'mob rule' mentality, it is the sin of presumption and it goes against everything that God has established in this country as His client nation that He has given much mercy and grace.

The laws of our land promote a Republic and not a Democracy. A Democracy favors the opinion of the masses while a Republic protects the rights of the individual citizen. For example: If you were in a community and you wanted to put up a wooden fence around your property and the people in your neighborhood worked up a petition to stop you from doing that, the laws are designed to protect the individual against the majority and allow for them to be freely exercised in the laws that have been established. The majority rule (or mob rule) has no place in a Republic and does not promote the freedoms that we have been given as individual citizens in a country and land that is governed by laws.