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Former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Dwayne Goodrich was sentenced on Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison for striking and killing two men with his luxury car while speeding home from a night at strip clubs.


The two men struck by Goodrich were Good Samaritans who had stopped to help a motorist in a separate accident flee from a car that was on fire, police said.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1357&e=4&u=/nm/20030820/sp_nm/nfl_cowboys_dc&sid=7666489

This is one thing I hate about the law. Getting the two fer one deal when killing someone. His sentences (7 1/2 years for each man killed) run concurrently. Let's think about that. Kill one and do 7 1/2 years. Kill two and do 7 1/2 years. Yeah, seems to me like the second one's a freebie.

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In 1991, in New York City, a Hasidic man accidentally drove a motorcade carrying Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson into two African-American children. One of the children - seven year old Gavin Cato - died at the scene.

In the hours following the accident, a rumor spread within the black community of Crown Heights that Jewish ambulance workers had ignored the injured children and offered help only to the Jewish driver. In response, a group of African Americans began to riot.

In the course of rioting, the violent crowd yelled "Get the Jew" and chased down Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Jewish man in his twenties who happened to be walking in the neighborhood. One of the pursuers, Lemrick Nelson, stabbed Rosenbaum with a knife. Rosenbaum was subsequently taken to a hospital, where he died of internal bleeding.

In the next decade, Nelson stood trial for his actions in a series of state and federal criminal proceedings, each of which was controversial in its own way.

At the most recent of these trials, which ended last month in a Brooklyn federal court, a jury found Lemrick Nelson guilty of violating Yankel Rosenbaum's civil rights by stabbing him.

Answering a separate question, however, the jury found that Nelson's actions did not cause his victim's death. That finding was a major triumph for the defense. Because Nelson had already spent time in jail awaiting trial, and because the maximum sentence for violation of civil rights (in the absence of homicide) is ten years, Nelson may ultimately walk out of prison in less than a year.

Given the facts in this case, the jury's verdict is logically incoherent. As such, it may reveal a general weakness in our system: the jury's difficulty performing logical analysis.

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"A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted."

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That was the actual description of the episode.

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