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- From: epowers@mccoy (POWERS)
- Subject: Re: Easter whodunnit
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- Organization: New Mexico State University
- References: <12479@sorley.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:55:26 GMT
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- In article <12479@sorley.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- writes:
-
- > The most likely explanation is that the witness is lying. The reason
- > that there were no guards is that it made no sense for there to be
- > any. I can't imagine an officer who, short of being out of his mind,
- > would send soldiers to guard the body of an executed criminal, as if
- > it were some object of value or as if the army had nothing else to do.
- >
-
- The idea that guards were present is too easily verifiable from
- local records, and the locals themselves. It would be easy to lie to you
- and me, certainly, but how easy would it be to lie about a thing like that
- in the same city where the events occurred? Lying in this situation about
- something so easily checked out would be beyond dense.
- Erik Powers
-