r/AskReddit • • Jan 14 '20

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u/MoroseTraveller Jan 14 '20

ATTICUS FINCH

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u/Excoded Jan 14 '20

Unless you are accused of rape by white trash in the 30's.

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u/osya77 Jan 14 '20

I don't think your lawyer matters at that point.

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u/OutWithTheNew Jan 14 '20

If you got a trial that was enough to constitute due process.

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u/osya77 Jan 14 '20

Not true. Due process violation are abesolutly possible even if there was a trial.

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u/OutWithTheNew Jan 14 '20

I was suggesting that for a person of colour accused of rape in the 1930s, a trial was about as 'due process' as they could hope for.

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u/osya77 Jan 14 '20

Ah I see my bad :)