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2 Nov 2024 21:20:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Do trials by jury make sense?  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Apr 2008 09:26:30
Message: <4815d085@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
> In other words, jury trials are there to prevent judges to create law as it 
> fits them.

  I thought the Constitution (and the comissions created to impose it)
exists precisely to stop law-makers (and, in this case, judges) from
creating unfair laws.

  Anyways, why should 12 people who have not been elected by the community
be representing the wishes of the community with regard to law? Isn't that
the task of elected representatives?

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                                                          - Warp


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