Oh, yeah ... the Pollard thing.

Now once again I have to resort to baby talk ... so there's a chance you might inderstand.

The Pollard case was/is a legal matter ... where the law enforcemnt authorities filed a charge ... evidence was gathered ... and presented before a judge and jury in something called a trial ... a verdict was reached ... and a sentence was determined ... appeals ... many of them ... already have been heard ... and more will follow.

That's how the American leagl system works. It isn't perfect ... and sometimes bad results occur ... but ... over the long haul ... and ceteris paribus ... it's a pretty good system.

I don't know if you're as much an expert on the legal system as you are on world history and economics ... but somehow ... I suspect that you are.