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The wheels of justice

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Today's news was thick with high profile court cases and outcomes. Several that stuck with me:

There's a legal battle raging somewhere in Ontario over whether a certain pitbull should be euthanized after attacking a small child. But there's another dimension to the story -- this was the dog's second attack, and it occurred because the owner didn't comply with a court order to muzzle the dog in public. Now he's back in court trying to keep the dog alive. Should that even be an option at this point?
In one of the longest court cases in Canadian history, two Sikh fundamentalists were acquitted of first-degree murder in the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, which left 329 people (mostly Indo-Canadians) dead. The accused's true guilt or innocence aside, the verdict was an enormous blow to the families who have been kept in the lurch for an unbelievable two decades and, from what I gather, fully expected a guilty verdict.
Robert Blake acquitted -- again, I had the impression it was an open-and-shut case. Apparently the jury wasn't convinced. Up next: the Michael Jackson saga...

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