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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by jacquesm on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:38AM (#26610291)
> The trial is about figuring out the truth.

Even that is an assumption.

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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by cutemonster on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:19AM (#26611083)
I'm thinking about trials more as tools for the people in the legal system to advance their careers (unfortunately. I don't work there)
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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by Spivak on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:17PM (#26625085)
Fair, but as a defendant the trial is pretty much your only chance to tell your side of the story to the people whose decision actually matters. Police officers and prosecutors don't decide whether you go to jail so there's never a point to trying to prove your innocence to them.
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