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Miss Coates hasn't watched enough courtroom dramas. Or maybe she's more sophisticated than we realise, and wants to switch to the French system of jurisprudence as defined by the napoleonic code.

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Spot. On.

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And she is the *legal* analyst @ CNN. It's staggering. Didn't stop them from convicting on all counts though.

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There there’s a legal analyst on ABC:

"Today isn't about one police officer. This is about the relationship between justice and the police system.” Even kittens know it IS about a police officer and only muy malo human media types would make it something else.

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I sat in a jury and even the judge emphasized reasonable doubt.

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the Bee is mostly correct about tomorrow's news. ms Coates reports through the lens of Maoist juris prudence..

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FFS, I thought that was a play on mis-quotes.

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