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Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter

locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is the value of jury trials, the people get a chance to decide what is just. What’s the point in having a justice system that results in outcomes the vast majority would consider unjust.

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FishFace@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why is the judge able to exclude evidence?

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- KeithD@lemmy.nz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s part of their job. Anything that’s more prejudicial than probative, anything that isn’t relevant to the charges, anything that has no verifiable source, that all gets tossed if the judge is doing their job. And that’s not an exhaustive list.
  
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  - locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah which is a good thing for fairness, and then the fact the jury decided based on more than what was allowed alone was also a representation of a public desire for real justice
    
    I think everyone played their roles
    
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  - FishFace@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And so the judge decided in this case that the defendants motivations were similarly not relevant.
    
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- 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No fucking clue, they shouldnt be
  
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  - FishFace@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I encourage you to look it up :)
    
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