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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Because there was no Jewish successor state. There wasn't a Jewish state until Jewish settlers committed ethnic cleansing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

At least that halfway makes sense. Netflix on a laptop means games too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

So glad you're just taking the prosecution's word as fact. Her defense was that she was literally in the process of being raped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So could a second and third judge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A corrupt court would just declare a mistrial over and over until it looks like they're getting the result they want. So a jury is hardly a defense against that. Heck a corrupt court would probably just find a way to not have a jury at all. Like forcing people into plea deals by denying them a defense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You just described authoritarian or illiberal democracy and said you believe it's correct.

There's a democratic process for creating laws. If a government creates a law making having a given skin color a criminal act, then the role of a jury in such a case would be to find the defendant guilty.

If what you say is true then we don't need a jury at all. Just judges. After all why would we rely on random citizens when we could have a technical expert deciding if the law is applicable and was violated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

According to the system. That did give that defence to the guy who traveled to a protest to shoot people.

I need that F to doubt button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

it seems like the hard right crowd are the ones crying about it being misinformation.

Hahahahaha no.

And I call out those posters when I see it too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Why when they can just send one guy with a camera?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can avoid that by at least being internally consistent though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They literally denied her the defense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So you're down for authoritarian democracy. Good to know. Of course you'd want a rubber stamp jury. But our founders instituted juries the way they did specifically because parliament passed and enforced unjust laws. To say they must convict on the most absurd of laws flies in the face of our entire history.

 

Here we go again.

 

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