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>So perhaps your suggestion of lawyers deciding on verdict has some issues? As far as I know, bench trials are successfully conducted throughout the world.
by Hamuko 4y ago
>So perhaps your suggestion of lawyers deciding on verdict has some issues?
As far as I know, bench trials are successfully conducted throughout the world.
- baobabKoodaa 4y agoYou're correct. I tried to make a point but I went too far with it.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> bench trials are successfully conducted throughout the world True, for some value of "successful". A bench trial is much cheaper than a jury trial, and is much less likely to come up with the "wrong" verdict. Bench trials are characteristic of justice in authoritarian countries.