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Thanks for that insight. My discomfort is with the notion that they could know that the defendant is guilty- sure there may be some obvious cases, but I do not

by causal 3y ago

Thanks for that insight. My discomfort is with the notion that they could know that the defendant is guilty- sure there may be some obvious cases, but I do not trust most humans to differentiate their intuition from hard evidence.

swells34 3y ago
And unfortunately, judges are the only legal entity empowered to use their intuition for legal decision making. Sentencing is a good example; judges can kinda just decide sentences based on feel. Just throw some number out there.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago
  That's not unfortunate, it's the system working as intended. Not being funny but that's why we call them judges. You can't have everything decided in advance by an algorithm baked into the system, part of the system is devolved deciding, sometimes called "equity".