Friday, June 14, 2024

Law in Failure: Competing Theories of Death, Jury Bias, Fear of Civil Unrest -Problems with the Jury System

 The jury was a great advance in the 11th Century. It is less so now as described in this article. Here.


The remedy is to professionalize judges with their own judge schools. Allow them to investigatge the case. Then make them liabile for their mistakes. End the adversarial approach of the trial. It  imitates the Disputation Method of Scholasticism. Because the latter is a methodology of the Catholic Church, the adversarial system of trial violates the Establishment Clause. It is designed to generate fees for lawyers. It has no scientific reliability or validation statistics. It is wasteful and inaccurate. Most of the cases are settle by a plea deal. Trial procedures and othe incentives force innocent people into accpeting guilty pleas to avoid the risk and costs of a trial. The exoneration rate is far higher higher than 1 or 2%, as claimed. That rate does not count the iinocent defendants accepting a plea deal. 

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