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Arthur Chu
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The fact that the book causes rape politics and race politics to violently collide and pretty much sets itself up for the heartbreaking "Racism vs. Sexism: WHICH IS WORSE?!" donnybrook we seem unable to avoid having is pretty sad.

If the evidence was of the kind that you could dismiss all my talk of systemic biases making evidence sound more reasonable than it is and still in good conscience convict beyond reasonable doubt, Juror 8's shenanigans wouldn't have worked.

If the evidence was of the kind that you could dismiss all my talk of systemic biases making evidence sound more reasonable than it is and still in good conscience convict beyond reasonable doubt, Juror 8's shenanigans wouldn't have worked.

The fact that IRL jurors really have very little power at all and are incredibly manipulated and pushed around by the court and the prosecution is a fundamental problem with trying to make "jury movies" or "jury shows" interesting — see the first-season failures of Law and Order: Trial By Jury, The Jury (the one with

The fact that IRL jurors really have very little power at all and are incredibly manipulated and pushed around by the court and the prosecution is a fundamental problem with trying to make "jury movies" or "jury shows" interesting — see the first-season failures of Law and Order: Trial By Jury, The Jury (the one with

Presuming you do not in fact have any evidence that this guy really was guilty rather than lying his ass off — which I assume you do not — why do you think what he said was "crazy"? Is it just totally impossible in your worldview that he actually did not attempt to kill somebody but actually was accused of attempted

Presuming you do not in fact have any evidence that this guy really was guilty rather than lying his ass off — which I assume you do not — why do you think what he said was "crazy"? Is it just totally impossible in your worldview that he actually did not attempt to kill somebody but actually was accused of attempted

The kind of crappy lawyer you get when you're a fucking teenager from a shitty neighborhood.

The kind of crappy lawyer you get when you're a fucking teenager from a shitty neighborhood.

Of course that pretty much means a very well-heeled and aggressive prosecution going up against an incompetent hackish public defender (or even a competent well-trained public defender who is nonetheless deeply overworked and distracted, as is generally the case with Legal Aid) can get pretty much any result from the

Of course that pretty much means a very well-heeled and aggressive prosecution going up against an incompetent hackish public defender (or even a competent well-trained public defender who is nonetheless deeply overworked and distracted, as is generally the case with Legal Aid) can get pretty much any result from the

I know! It's like, why do we even have a jury system at all where we actually try to get people to weigh evidence and think things over and be intentionally biased against conviction because of the very weighty responsibility of holding someone's future in your hands?

I know! It's like, why do we even have a jury system at all where we actually try to get people to weigh evidence and think things over and be intentionally biased against conviction because of the very weighty responsibility of holding someone's future in your hands?

"Identical" switchblades isn't even like an identical model of firearm or identical make and model of a car though. It may be the case that this brand is so common as to be "standard", if Juror 8 is right that you can just go into any store in this neighborhood and get one.

"Identical" switchblades isn't even like an identical model of firearm or identical make and model of a car though. It may be the case that this brand is so common as to be "standard", if Juror 8 is right that you can just go into any store in this neighborhood and get one.

D'Angelo also deeply underestimates how psychologically jarring it would be to actually be arrested and accused of murder. It's something most of us can never imagine happening to us, not really, and people have "cracked" and gone slightly mad — if you want to get jargon-y, experienced a partial fugue state — over far

D'Angelo also deeply underestimates how psychologically jarring it would be to actually be arrested and accused of murder. It's something most of us can never imagine happening to us, not really, and people have "cracked" and gone slightly mad — if you want to get jargon-y, experienced a partial fugue state — over far

Not all guilty men are career criminals — indeed the majority are not — and if anything our prison system seems mostly geared toward *creating* career criminals out of people guilty of minor crimes.

Not all guilty men are career criminals — indeed the majority are not — and if anything our prison system seems mostly geared toward *creating* career criminals out of people guilty of minor crimes.

I don't completely agree.