To the editor: Contributing author Wayne Unger tries his utmost to current the pending James Comey case as a two-sided problem (“James Comey’s case will play out in a murky area of the law,” June 4). I provide him reward; he jogs my memory of my former legislation professors. However, there’s a layman’s saying that additionally applies right here. He can’t see the forest for the timber.
He drifts into the realm of the unintentionally hilarious through the use of the phrase “greater than believable” to explain extraordinarily far-fetched rationales which may clarify this debacle. What’s extraordinarily believable is convicted felon President Trump’s abuse of the workplace, with vendetta after vendetta towards any opponents who may need honestly famous his lawlessness. Should we point out once more that Comey eliminated the notorious submit swiftly? He said his ignorance of the attainable double which means, and avowed his opposition to violence. “86” much more generally means “throw him out,” proper?
Unger timidly closes by noting the sincerity and consciousness in markedly extra strident threats in earlier circumstances. He meekly notes, in his estimation, these components are absent. Do ya suppose? Strategy to take a stand, professor!
Typically it’s clearly black and white, not authorized grey. There’s a giant outdated forest on the market referred to as the at present misnamed Justice Division bullying innocents.
Mark J. Diniakos, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: In 40-plus years working in bars and eating places in California, I by no means heard “86” used to imply something aside from ejecting a too-rowdy buyer (“86’d”) or a prepare dinner or server saying a selected menu merchandise was “86’d” — not out there, briefly.
It will be fascinating amid the Comey “86” information to see some reporting about simply the place or how steadily “86” is used with the which means “to kill.”
Comey’s in any other case ludicrous rock-photo posting costs would have some validity if, along with the posted photograph, he had added the phrase “completely.” And even that I’d take as which means “86 him completely from politics,” not his mortal life.
Please do a survey. I believe some adults wouldn’t know what “86” meant in any respect, and I doubt few would suppose the shell photograph meant something aside from “take away Trump from the presidency.”
Mark Davidson, Santa Ana
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To the editor: The op-ed by Unger is true on. However what I’ve not seen frequently is a dialogue on the burden of proof in a felony case; past an affordable doubt. The time period “86” has a couple of frequent which means, the commonest being to throw somebody out, as I perceive it, and to not kill. See the definition in a dictionary.
That being so, how can a jury conclude past an affordable doubt that Comey’s intent was to advertise killing moderately than impeachment of the president or use of the twenty fifth Modification to throw him out of workplace, each authorized means? I can’t consider any self-respecting prosecutor would file the cost.
Gary Hastings, Redondo Seaside
