Absolutely concur. Prosecutor's argument was pathos-based trash. In my experience, if you have to resort to pathos, your factual case is in bad shape. Disgusting that this ruling even happened. Hopefully, the appellate court throws this shit out.
Unfortunately, it seems that pathos based arguments are way better than fact based ones... or maybe fact based ones aren't better than threats of violence.
Both points are absolutely true. You can mitigate the first to some degree by refusing a jury and allowing the judge to be both the trier of law and fact. Not much can be done against the second.
Absolutely concur. Prosecutor's argument was pathos-based trash. In my experience, if you have to resort to pathos, your factual case is in bad shape. Disgusting that this ruling even happened. Hopefully, the appellate court throws this shit out.
Unfortunately, it seems that pathos based arguments are way better than fact based ones... or maybe fact based ones aren't better than threats of violence.
Both points are absolutely true. You can mitigate the first to some degree by refusing a jury and allowing the judge to be both the trier of law and fact. Not much can be done against the second.
Yeah, but that assumes you can trust a judge.
Yep. Fucked either way tbh.