I have no illusions about Maduro’s decency. But his not guilty pleas have more credibility than claims made by the American ambassador to the UN asserting that the U.S.has not violated the UN Charter.
Chip Butty
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David Lammy's (UK Justice Secretary) own review in 2017 found that people from racialised backgrounds are more likely to trust a jury than a magistrate.
Judges are from a narrow background and part of the state infrastructure. They're more likely to accept the police or CPS narrative.
Juries protect against institutional failure.
The proposals to cut back on jury trials comes as successive UK governments have passed anti-protest laws and expanded terrorism law.
Verdicts in these cases often hinge on how a jury interprets intention and political meaning.
A single judge must not decide over the criminalisation of protest.
This attack on juries comes as police are using so-called 'crime-predicting' tech more and more.
This tool relies on flawed data that targets low-income and racialised communities who are already over-represented in criminal legal system data sets.
We need the human oversight of juries.
The UK government wants to strip back jury trials to reduce the court backlog.
But 'efficiency' without accuracy and accountability is simply injustice delivered faster and at scale.
They should focus on expanding legal aid, banning “crime-predicting” tech that funnel people into the legal system and investing in community services, housing, youth clubs and mental health services. These are more successful in reducing crime and reoffending.
David Lammy's (UK Justice Secretary) own review in 2017 found that people from racialised backgrounds are more likely to trust a jury than a magistrate.
Judges are from a narrow background and part of the state infrastructure. They're more likely to accept the police or CPS narrative.
Juries protect against institutional failure.
David Lammy's (UK Justice Secretary) own review in 2017 found that people from racialised backgrounds are more likely to trust a jury than a magistrate.
Judges are from a narrow background and part of the state infrastructure. They're more likely to accept the police or CPS narrative.
Juries protect against institutional failure.
The proposals to cut back on jury trials comes as successive UK governments have passed anti-protest laws and expanded terrorism law.
Verdicts in these cases often hinge on how a jury interprets intention and political meaning.
A single judge must not decide over the criminalisation of protest.
Juries are a crucial check on the abuse of power.
The UK government must not roll back jury trials.
Doing so will result in automated injustice as the criminal justice system looks towards crime-predicting tech and algorithmic decision-making.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/defending-trial-by-jury/
Alex Akselrod
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Judge Eric Davis ruled earlier that #Newsmax did indeed #defame Denver-based #DominionVotingSystems by airing false information [ #lies] about the company & its equipment. But Davis left it to a #jury to eventually decide whether that was done with #malice, &, if so, how much #Dominion deserved from Newsmax in #damages. Newsmax & Dominion reached the settlement before the trial could take place.
The settlement was disclosed by Newsmax on Monday in a new filing with the #SEC.
The settlement comes after #FoxNews paid $787.5M to settle a similar #defamation lawsuit in 2023 & #Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40M to settle a #libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, #Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump #ConspiracyTheories on the network.
Judge Eric Davis ruled earlier that #Newsmax did indeed #defame Denver-based #DominionVotingSystems by airing false information [ #lies] about the company & its equipment. But Davis left it to a #jury to eventually decide whether that was done with #malice, &, if so, how much #Dominion deserved from Newsmax in #damages. Newsmax & Dominion reached the settlement before the trial could take place.
The settlement was disclosed by Newsmax on Monday in a new filing with the #SEC.
Breaking with standard protocol, the memo was not signed by any career prosecutors but by Robert J. Keenan, a senior counsel to the #CivilRights division who was not part of the original prosecution team, & Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the division who was appointed under the #Trump admin.
#BreonnaTaylor #law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism
In Nov, a federal #jury found Brett Hankison, the #Louisville #police officer, #guilty of violating #BreonnaTaylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot, becoming the first officer directly involved in the case to be convicted on #criminal charges.
Hankison faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.
William Gillis 🏴
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![STORIES OF JURY NULLIFICATION
“I'have been on juries pretty often [over] the last
10 years. I'm in Saint Louis and especially after the
Ferguson uprising, I've tried to get [my fellow jurors]
to reconsider their own bias and how we often insert
our own experience erroneously especially in regards to
race and crime. I find gently asking questions about
assumptions folks make to be pretty useful. Asking
folks if their goal is punishment, protection for the
vulnerable or rehabilitation can allow me to slide in
word tracks about abolition without people realizing
what Iam doing. And, of course, being prepared to be
the hold out and explaining why I am, gently and in a
granular way, can get others to join me.”](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/775/102/460/690/759/original/276a0bedd0db9e47.png)