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Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by kragen on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:46PM (#22111990)
Dude, Brazil wasn't an English colony. They don't even have juries, much less jury nullification.
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Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by cmcaine on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:02PM (#22123019)
Jury trials are practiced in many jurisdictions and did not originate in England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial

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Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by zorked on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:05AM (#22114787)
Brazil has juries.
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Re:Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil by kragen on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:18AM (#22115081)
Whoops, my bad: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Brazil

But it doesn't sound like Greenwald will get a jury trial.

Thanks for the correction!

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