Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

[David Kastrup]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/10/2010 11:33 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>> the complainant sumits his complaint in ordinary English
>
>> You make the same error as those who advocate writing computer
>> programs in ordinary English. You need lawyers to handle lawsuits
>> like you need programmers to write programs, because in each case
>> experience and expertise are required to achieve good results.
>
> If that is the case (and it appears to be so at the moment), then the
> system is badly broken.  Results should depend only on facts, not
> presentation.

Courts have no direct input device for facts.

-- 
David Kastrup