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    28 April 1998
    Los Angeles Times
    original article: Bank Robber Bled to Death Unnecessarily,
            L.A. Times, 21 April 1998

    following letters: Bank Robber's Shooting Death,
            L.A. Times, 24 April 1998

    All three letters (April 24) used unacceptable lynch-mob logic to reach their conclusions that Emil Matasareanu deserved to bleed to death because of his illegal actions. The fact is that Matasareanu died an innocent man that day. A "technicality" of the Constitution guaranteed him that innocence until he could be proven guilty.

    You people just don't get it, do you? This is not the Middle Ages.

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