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> After hearing the prosecution and the defence, they asked everyone to return to hear their judgment in 100 years’ time, neatly avoiding the need to ever make
by vmception 6y ago
> After hearing the prosecution and the defence, they asked everyone to return to hear their judgment in 100 years’ time, neatly avoiding the need to ever make a decision.
How delightfully unsatisfactory but a neat way to resolve it. If these things did get into history books, a consensus likely would have been reached in the collective minds by then.
- neilwilson 6y agoThat technique still exists today. When justices reserve judgment you find there is no mechanism to require they pass judgement. The long grass is sometimes useful.