I spent five years of my life in Australia. It is a rich country. It is a beautiful country. It has little poverty. It has superb medical care. Unfortunately it has a brutal and often unjust system of criminal justice. Torture can happen during interrogations. If a suspect will not confess, a policeman will show up at the trial that follows. This police officer will open up his or her policeman't notebook. Read into the record will be the verbal confession of the defendant. In Australia, this is called "verballing."
Defense attorneys will hire a semanticists as expert witnesses. This expert is a linguistic scientist. The semanticist will analyze the speech patterns of the defendant. They will give an expert opinion to the court and jury. The key question is "did the alleged confession given to the police officer match the speech patterns of the defendant?"
In the case of Donald Trump and the alleged awful comments that he made about US military personnel killed or severely wounded in battle, a semanticist should be called in to analyze Trump's speech patterns. Are they consistent with the words that he was alleged to have spoken about US military personnel killed or severely wounded?
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