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Re: Cause of the Fire
Posted by:
Gerald Hurst (IP Logged)
Date: July 12, 2006 10:34AM
If there is evidence that the fire was more likely than not incendiary, would it not be prefferable to report the classification as "probably incendiary" rather than "incendiary"?
A jury might use a finding of unmitigated "incendiary" as a corner stone of "beyond a reasonable doubt."