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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by austenallred on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:55PM (#14931612)
You're not wrong. Humans are fallible and thus so are jury trials.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:57PM (#14931638)
But judges are infallible and thus so are bench trials?
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by austenallred on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:04PM (#14931725)
Um no one said or even implied either of those things
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:06PM (#14931744)
It does seem to be implied if you are invoking human fallibility to bolster an argument that jury trials are bad.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by austenallred on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:09PM (#14931769)
How does jury trials being imperfect imply that bench trials are perfect? A being true does not mean B is false...
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:11PM (#14931788)
The OP was saying that bench trials are much better, not just that jury trials are flawed.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by austenallred on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:18PM (#14931869)
better != perfect
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:42PM (#14932068)
OK, so the argument is that regular people are... more fallible than a judge? I don't understand what you want to say at this point.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by Clubber on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:09PM (#14931774)
Judges are either appointed or elected, both equates to judges being political creatures.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by emodendroket on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:42PM (#14932070)
It's a rhetorical question.
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