Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister
cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au 3 weeks agoThat doesn’t really work. The right wing aggressors will always see the purpose of law is to punish their enemies (which it is). The idea that it contains a technicality for the sake of fairness that you’re literally not allowed to tell people about so its not entirely one sided is not the same.
Tango@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
With an argument like that, it sounds like you have a lot of contempt for the court system. So if the barrister also argued in open court that “ignoring all law and evidence is the right thing to do”…
cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
No, you use a dog whistle for that.
Tango@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Given that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.
cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Noi meant for the thing you said
If the jury don’t know their options, then what’s the point of them?