Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by drdeca on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:58PM
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Are you proposing that before having jury duty people should be taught how to use bayes rule?
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by scott_s on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:42PM
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I assume the commenter is proposing to not have jurors. There are other kinds of trials. The Germans do it very differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Germany
In short, they don't have jurors, but a panel of judges. The judges are not passive, as they are in the US. That is, in the US, judges are referees between two opposing sides. In Germany, the judges are active participants, and can inquire and guide the process.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by Tomte on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:39AM
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And in most criminal cases there are jurors, called "lay judges".
The court is set up in such a way that at least one lay judge has to concur with a conviction (because of majority rules). So there is also a safety valve where "the common people" can stop oppressive prosecution.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by pdkl95 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:08PM
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Bayes rule should be taught before handing out highschool diplomas.
Differential calculus, trigonometry, and even geometry can wait. They are interesting topics, but statistics (with bayes) is something that is immediately applicable to typical situations encountered by the average citizen.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by anon4327733 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:39PM
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The should be taught what it means for a DNA test to be 99% accurate or at least it shouldn't be out of order for a lawyer to explain that as is currently the case.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by JupiterMoon on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:19PM
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Why should there be a few lessons by someone impartial on the subject matter? At the moment the system relies on expert witnesses who are called by one side or the other with an agenda.