I've sat on a slew of juries and testified as a witness in a bunch of courts-martial and trials. One not-to-be-forgotten consideration is the crucial distinction between two drastically different meanings of the carelessly thrown-around word opinion.
Not whether I thought that the defendant should pay for the plaintiff's lost eye, for example, but what I thought that the presented evidence indicated. A moral opinion versus a legal or technical opinion, if you will.
Mountain of difference.
� the truth is in the eye of public opinion. End of story. �
Not so.
The earth was round long before there was any public acceptance of the notion that it wasn't flat.
Facts are facts, impervious to opinions public or private.
I don't think this ranks that high but whatever blows your skirt up. Done
