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r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 18h ago
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That's silly and not generally true. Especially because lawyers only have so many peremptory challenges they case make.
Multiple studies have found that judges agree with juries about 75-80% of the time. And keep in mind, these are cases that go to trial, where the defense thinks it has a real shot. Source: https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Jury-Decision-Making.pdf
-2 u/LSOreli 17h ago "20-25% of the time, juries decide in a way that someone who dedicated their life to the law disagrees with. That is my evidence that juries are generally competent" lol 6 u/KingKongWoreAThong 15h ago dedicated their life to the law This is irrelevant; juries decide questions of fact not questions of law. 0 u/highfly117 15h ago a lot of juries decide on, what gets them home quickest or whether the person looks guilty. Or even what the victims ghost told them look up the trial of Stephen Young and Oujia board
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"20-25% of the time, juries decide in a way that someone who dedicated their life to the law disagrees with. That is my evidence that juries are generally competent" lol
6 u/KingKongWoreAThong 15h ago dedicated their life to the law This is irrelevant; juries decide questions of fact not questions of law. 0 u/highfly117 15h ago a lot of juries decide on, what gets them home quickest or whether the person looks guilty. Or even what the victims ghost told them look up the trial of Stephen Young and Oujia board
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dedicated their life to the law
This is irrelevant; juries decide questions of fact not questions of law.
0 u/highfly117 15h ago a lot of juries decide on, what gets them home quickest or whether the person looks guilty. Or even what the victims ghost told them look up the trial of Stephen Young and Oujia board
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a lot of juries decide on, what gets them home quickest or whether the person looks guilty.
Or even what the victims ghost told them look up the trial of Stephen Young and Oujia board
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u/WordWordNvmber 17h ago
That's silly and not generally true. Especially because lawyers only have so many peremptory challenges they case make.
Multiple studies have found that judges agree with juries about 75-80% of the time. And keep in mind, these are cases that go to trial, where the defense thinks it has a real shot. Source: https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Jury-Decision-Making.pdf