[WikiEN-l] Viajero/Zero and Lance6 - POV terms

[Mark Richards]

Geoffrey has hit the nail on the head here. x killed
y. That much we agree on. x is accused of murder by
the family of y, but the court found him innocent. The
family of y think this is a travesty of justice.
Mark

--- Geoffrey Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

> Many years ago, I took a couple of journalism
> classes in college. One of the
> few things I remember is that when writing about
> unlawful activities, one
> must carefully use specific words to qualify the
> charge, such as "accused",
> "alleged", "indicted", & "convicted". For example:
> 
> *President Bush, alleged cocaine abuser
> 
> *The CIA allegedly sold drugs in Los Angeles to fund
> the Contras in Nicaraugua
> 
> *Kenneth Lay, indicted for corporate fraud
> 
> *Martha Stewart, convicted of insider trading
> 
> Note carefully that what is being asserted is not
> whether or not any of the
> people mentioned _actually_ committed the crimes,
> merely the opinions of
> a large number of people, or the official verdicts
> of the American legal
> system. And it has been documented that individuals
> are occasionally
> arrested, tried & convicted for crimes that they are
> later shown not to have
> committed -- thus we cannot assert that conviction
> for a crime means that it
> was an NPOV fact that they actualy committed that
> specific crime.
> 
> Also note that these phrases are based on
> Anglo-American law, where people
> are arrested, indicted by a grand jury, then found
> innocent or guilty by a
> court. I'm not sure just what the equivalent
> terminology in Civil Law would
> be. If a prosecuting judge charges someone with a
> crime, would it be correct
> to say that the person charged is indicted?
> 
> I think is a solution that would nicely fit with the
> rules of NPOV.
> 
> Geoff
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