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Would the report have said the same thing if Hanah had written it?

posted 7 years ago by sharonl2
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If so, then why expose her weakness (which she was taught from birth never to show) if the results would have been the same no matter which of the women wrote it? Yes, her sentence would have been shorter, anothers' longer, but to her it did not matter. It would not bring back the dead.

[–] sharonl2 7 years ago

my apologies for the redundant post. I'm new at this!

[–] huwdj (4562) 7 years ago

Do we know what the report said? In court the other five argued they didn't know about the fire and I assume that's what was in the report. Possibly Hannah, with her brutal honesty, might have written something different on her own but I suspect it would have been written as a group effort in which case it doesn't really matter who physically wrote it.