Current Events > Juror fined $11k for mistrial after Googling ICE agent's supremacist patch

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Stalolin posted...

This. It's the dang 21st century. People have access to so much information at any given moment - how can you expect them not to use it? If it needs to be contextualised or debunked that's what the adversarial system and the courtroom itself is for.

You can expect them not to use it because they are told to do so under penalty of law.

Zikten posted...

That is a rule I have always opposed. There have many cases where someone was found guilty and later the jurors said they would have found them innocent if they had seen evidence that was hidden from them

So you are completely aware that inadmissable evidence could easily alter the outcome of a case if someone were to search for it the way this juror was instructed not to? Youre proposing a system where internet jackasses get to influence court cases, and thats not gonna work.

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Judge is probably a white supremacist himself.

Hope the defendant is acquitted and the ICE agent gets his face caved in.

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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

So you are completely aware that inadmissable evidence could easily alter the outcome of a case if someone were to search for it the way this juror was instructed not to? Youre proposing a system where internet jackasses get to influence court cases, and thats not gonna work.

Or we can see a system where jackasses within the courts who lick the police's asses will "suggest" incorrect things to get the outcome they want. You're living a dream if you think what we have here is anywhere close to justice.

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Middle hope posted...

How long until we can just get an all AI jury that determines guilt?

That would most likely violate the us constitution

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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

You can expect them not to use it because they are told to do so under penalty of law.

Yeah like it did her- Oh wait, no it didn't!

The absolute state of civic education in this country
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

The absolute state of civic education in this country

They can't get over their feelings long enough to realize this is a horrible idea.

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Crazyman93 posted...

That would most likely violate the us constitution

Not if AI is considered our peer.

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1337toothbrush posted...

Not if AI is considered our peer.

It likely wouldn't be. But we are decades from THAT court argument.

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