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NoOneMan

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1. The system is designed to be subjective enough to allow predujuice to excuse some crimes...

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sun Jul 14, 2013, 02:55 PM

Jul 2013

and condemn others.

This was a case where the law supported either result and gave the jury every opportunity to excuse the death of a black teenager. Of course, juries do not always exercise that right if they do not approve of who was killed or who did the killing.

This wonderful system puts plenty of innocent people behind bars, and ensures 60% of the prison population is black. So don't tell me about it letting a few guilty people go. It lets "acceptable" people go and makes "acceptable" murders permissible.

Fuck that system

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If "we" wrote the laws today no poor or minority person would ever be acquitted. Ever. [View all] cthulu2016 Jul 2013 OP

The system is designed to be subjective enough to allow predujuice to excuse some crimes... NoOneMan Jul 2013 #1

Superbly written LittleBlue Jul 2013 #2

I note that in your entire OP you never once mention justice. GeorgeGist Jul 2013 #3

People often expected and got justice, only to cthulu2016 Jul 2013 #9

If that is true - how come we have a quarter of the worlds prisoner population. Democracyinkind Jul 2013 #4

The number of people in prisons is, imho, to a large part due to anomiep Jul 2013 #8

We have so many people in prison for a few reasons. Igel Jul 2013 #14

I don't blame the jury or the prosecutors. morningfog Jul 2013 #5

The six-person jury is pretty odd. NaturalHigh Jul 2013 #6

What do you mean by 'not treated as a suspect' anomiep Jul 2013 #13

I remember "reasonable doubt" and "right not to testify" existing at the time of OJ Simpson's trial. Nye Bevan Jul 2013 #7

Actually, the laws don't have to be 'rewritten' to see this happen... Spazito Jul 2013 #10

Somehow ProSense Jul 2013 #11

I don't regard is as justification. But it is an explanation. onenote Jul 2013 #12