(June 19, 2012 at 9:09 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: "Mr.Lynch, could you please tell the court why you decided to brutally assault an old man who had spent his years selflessly serving the Church?"
"Yes sir, he fucked my little brother."
"AH-HA! Guilty!"
Really?
Jury nullification is PART of our system here.
You still miss the bigger picture.
Not even talking about priests, but single men in general, and not even with kids.
DO YOU KNOW how fucking easy in cases of "he said she said" if someone merely didn't like you, they could make a false accusation just to get even with you.
Now OUTSIDE the issue of crime, just between co-workers and communities with diversity, people tell lies all the time. Because people can be vindictive for no damned good reason. And do not tell me ever in your life you have not had someone you know, a "seemingly friend" or outright foe" not lie about you.
The point is to prevent a vigilante society LONG TERM. You focus on the nature of the charge and not the facts of the case, it becomes easy for you to merely "get even".
Otherwise why even have a legal system? Any time someone is accused of something horrible, lets just murder them because we don't like the charge.
That guy was entitled to his emotions, but he was not entitled to take the law into his own hands. If you want to live in a country based on emotional justice Afghanistan and Iran come to mind.
