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Re: Negative Corpus
Date: July 16, 2015 10:32AM
How is it negative corpus if his conclusion is that this fire is undetermined.? As far as the rest, there are facts and circumstances that strongly suggest the possibility of a intentionally set fire, I agree that it does not belong in his conclusion. That being said, I have arrested folks on undetermined fires several times because there were facts and circumstances that strongly suggest that the fire was intentionally set.....followed shortly thereafter by full confessions.