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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

muriel_volestrangler

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4. I don't know if 'making a false report' would go in front of a jury

Reply to drm604 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2012, 08:06 PM

Jun 2012

but, if it did, I fear you couldn't get a conviction. Some jurors would either buy any BS about how it was 'real' in some sense, with a detail (time? place?) just 'mistaken', or how they 'psychic' made the accusation 'in good faith' - which they'd try to show with BS about how spiritual they are, therefore they could never hurt anyone.

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Maybe they should also sue the psychic. drm604 Jun 2012 #1

I would hope both those things happen. TheWraith Jun 2012 #3

I don't know if 'making a false report' would go in front of a jury muriel_volestrangler Jun 2012 #4

"information about mass murders cannot be ignored" SwissTony Jun 2012 #2