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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Knowing this is how you get out of jury duty

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or, how you make sure a bullshit case doesn't convict someone...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Or allow racist crime you agree with to pass without conviction

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's better to let 10 guilty people go free than be complicit in ruining the life of one innocent person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well yeah but that doesn't invalidate the concept. Especially when it's the only tool we really have left to fight the ridiculous system we have now.