Quote Originally Posted by ThisYouWillDo View Post
The point of giving a man a fair trial, even to known criminals, is to prevent abuse of process and to demonstrate publicly that justice has been done. Everyone has the right of a fair trial under the American Constitution, and you can't take that away from a man simply because what he is accused of is particularly distasteful to you. And the point of a jury is to get someone who thinks like me, and someone who thinks like you on the same panel.
LOL! I think if you and I were on the same jury it would be one hell of a long deliberation, and probably end in a hung jury (if the other jurors didn't "hang" us first!)

As for the fair trial, yes, I agree. Since he was not caught at the scene, with the "smoking gun" the state must give him a fair trial, gathering evidence, the whole shootin' match. But if someone in that store had killed the man in the commission of the crime I would consider that person to be a hero, not a murderer.