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re: What are your views on the following issues?

Posted on 8/14/14 at 12:41 am to
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 8/14/14 at 12:41 am to
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Do you honestly think 12 random Americans are intelligent or sophisticated enough to determine whether a human being lives or dies? I sure as hell don't


Serving on a couple of juries in Louisiana made me realize how fricked up our CJ system really is.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
38434 posts
Posted on 8/14/14 at 12:58 am to
Especially in Lousiana, which does not require unanimity for a criminal conviction. In Johnson v. Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana state court conviction where the verdict was 9-3 in favor of conviction. Are we going to allow someone to be killed where 25% of the jury thought he or she was innocent? I wish everyone in this country spent a week interning with the Public Defender's Office. The inequities in our judicial system would be much more clear to anyone who thinks that innocent men aren't railroaded.
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