South Carolina father helps police arrest man accused of looking at teen in bathroom, reports say

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[–]gendercritfem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The jury system is broken. They'll lock somebody up or let somebody go free regardless of the evidence, because they just get some random people who know nothing about the law, and many of them have prejudices that impact their ability to reason such as all-white juries convicting black men of made-up crimes during the segregation era).

So you want people to be able to be punished without any sort of trial, when it hasn't been proven that they've even committed any crime?

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That's a strawman argument. I'm not against the need for evidence, but rather against the idea that you should be sentenced or acquitted by twelve entirely-random people who quite likely know nothing about the law. I'm not even against juries in generally, just the fact that anyone can serve on them without any qualifications.