Hi, I wasn't ignoring you. I was out of town for a week with questionable internet service.
You still seem to have greater faith in the US Justice System than it deserves. As I said: Everything was accurate. It wasn't Oswald's fault that he survived the death penalty. And in the US system, you can't be tried twice for the same crime, let alone sentenced twice for the same crime. He survived his sentence, you might not like it, might not buy it, but that's how the system works. He wasn't sentenced to 'life in prison' he was sentenced to the Death Penalty. He served his time, as it were.
As to your 24 hours argument. The legal system doesn't work that fast. Never has. You might not buy how he was brought into the story. But, it actually does work. And for a British writer to be working with the US legal system, I was actually pleased that they seemed to do a tad bit of research rather than just going with whatever fit the storyline.
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Date: 2011-07-23 06:25 pm (UTC)You still seem to have greater faith in the US Justice System than it deserves. As I said: Everything was accurate. It wasn't Oswald's fault that he survived the death penalty. And in the US system, you can't be tried twice for the same crime, let alone sentenced twice for the same crime. He survived his sentence, you might not like it, might not buy it, but that's how the system works. He wasn't sentenced to 'life in prison' he was sentenced to the Death Penalty. He served his time, as it were.
As to your 24 hours argument. The legal system doesn't work that fast. Never has. You might not buy how he was brought into the story. But, it actually does work. And for a British writer to be working with the US legal system, I was actually pleased that they seemed to do a tad bit of research rather than just going with whatever fit the storyline.