Juryless rape trial pilot in disarray as Edinburgh and Glasgow lawyers back boycott
LAWYERS in Edinburgh and Glasgow have voted to boycott the Scottish Government’s plans for juryless trials in rape cases, warning that the pilot scheme could lead to miscarriages of justice.
I hate jury duty as much as the next person but if someone's freedom is in peril I'll do my bit to pass judgement on the evidence presented.
I'd expect the same in return from my peers.
You'll be disappointed by your peers.
In this day and age, a jury of peers is a punchline.
We all should be trying to get on juries, because that is how you stop the weaponization of the criminal justice system. Happily doing jury duty is how you nullify repugnant laws, or more importantly, activist prosecutors. The civil rights movement faced the same problem in the south, white juries would acquit white defendants accused of violence against blacks.
This is why they want to get rid of juries for rape cases, because a jury could acquit.
Think about what would happen if people like us were on the D.C. juries currently hanging everyone the deep state tries related to the 6 January protest. Would you acquit? I would, and no amount of evidence could change my mind.
I'd like to think that I would make my decision based on the evidence presented but, of course, I have my own experience and thoughts which I have to take into account too otherwise I'm a useless cog in the machine and would be at the mercy of another impotent part of the mechanics should my jury not reflect on their own experiences at my potential trial.
A jury is quite possibly the most important element in a court case requiring them as it takes the onus away from the state and places it upon those who make up the foundations of that state - just like a democratic election does.
Ah, now this is actually something people will find interesting. There was a bunch of cases awhile ago I think it was in England I believe where there was some utter lunatic feminist police commissioner that got caught deliberately interfering with investigations and withholding evidence that could have gotten innocent men off the case months ago. Mostly texts and the like that showed the accusers were consenting to everything and they made it all up.
This is another classic example of that happening but in Scotland where you have some utter nutcases trying to frustrate the legal system for the sake of bumping up rape convictions purely because like most feminists they believe in flawed statistics about rape accusations. Many of them operate on a 2% - 4% conviction figure and believe that every guy that gets away and hasn't taken a false accuser to caught is a rapist going free.
It was fascinating for me finding out this is how their mentality formed around the topic of rape and they all quote similar statistics if it's brought up and think you're a rape apologist for pointing out they're wrong. I'm not joking, this is what feminists truly believe and where their reasoning comes from, which is why I never trust a TERF. They all fucking believe this bullshit and it's one of their most sacred talking points, you should always study the belief system of people you despise.
https://youtu.be/tQbgAVFnKGE
^ This is how feminists lie with rape conviction figures
I think what's important here is distinguishing that they are zealots who really believe this. The liars are the ones who planted it into their heads when they went into university, it's very important for people to learn about though if they intend to confront feminists on anything.
True. That’s why I always post the link. To be a force multiplier for anyone arguing with an activist with an agenda.
Not to convince the activists. But anyone actually in the middle.
My guess, the lawyers know how fundamentally bad this is and easy to use against THEM that they'd rather boycott to kill it than play along.
Scotland is a complete joke, the English police have 0 authority and Wales....I don't know, they're probably just 2 steps less retarded than Scotland.
only white males get max sentence. everyone else gets slap on wrist for cultural sensitivity and sexual emergencies.
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https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16b5un7Xba/scotland-will-scrap-jury-trials-/c/
I’m so glad the people most in position to know how this will work out, the lawyers, are against this. I hope they keep up that resistance in the face of what will surely be a serious woke-jihad against them.
Huh? Prosecutors don’t bill by the hour, there’s no one to bill. Defense attorneys can but you’d think they’d want more hours, not less.
More white men.
This will not apply to the third worlders. In fact, it will used a means to ensure they are not convicted.
Lmao elite username.
Throwing presumption of innocence out the window is already done in Canada. Sexual crimes now have a different system, more discretion to throw out exculpatory evidence, with different ( lower ) standarts, and judges recieve brainwashing / "education".
The Feminist indoctrinatio is tp hammer-in that one must assume the accuser, no matter how obviously wrong, is just too traumatized to tell the truth so "he must be guilty of something, women would not lie about rape or sexual assault".
Anything else would be "revictimizing wimminz".
Those guidelines are largely a "how can we make sure the Gomeshi trial debacle can never happen again", the playbook.
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nice find.