Show Q l I A Lopsided Argument J I Vou hc hear r some som weird and ad c confusing n u ing argut t J 1 1 ments made in ana a criminal court BUtI But ut 1 I J heres here's ere s one be heard rd recently in New y York that t tak takes t the e palm pi pretty tty nearly hearly s A man was on trial traI for murder accused i of of killing 3 a rather notorious gangster His Hs 5 attorney adl admitted that the defendant had done 4 the killing but arg argued ed that he had really done society a ser service serc- ic i since he ho h hd d removed a l highly y undesirable citizen Hence he said he should escape punishment 1 How y heavily this weighed with the jury t we dont don't know b but t at any rate the me defendant got off With a manslaughter verdict instead ad pf of f the murder verdict the pros prosecutor had hadI I asked I Ir T r r The killing of a 1 gangster is no loss losS- to society to be sure But if we are areto to let private pd vale vate citizens take upon 1 themselves the performance performance per per- of such jobs we might as Wen well discard discard dis dis- card our courts and police entirely t |