
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 27, 1994                   TAG: 9403250061
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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JUDGING OTHERS A SIN, TOO

I am responding to the recent letter on the jury's decision that "disgusted" readers. Well, I'm disgusted that everyone keeps dragging into the ground Kelly Marshall's trial, the murder of Tabi, and the fact he didn't get charged for the murder of the unborn fetus. The reason he didn't get charged for the murder of the unborn child is Virginia state law doesn't allow it.

We sit around judging someone we know so little about. What Kelly Marshall did was wrong, and a sin, but we who sit around judging him all are commiting a bigger sin, so in one way, we are no better.

His act of crime isn't the only violent crime people should be concerned over. Stop and take a long look at people that only get months in jail for murder. If we would love and help our children as God intended for us to do, we wouldn't have serial killers, murderers, drug pushers.\ Vickie Akers Radford

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