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As a Swedish citizen this sends shivers down my spine. Since we have a rather weak constitution with little division of power we've relied on the good faith and
by jonas_b 17y ago
As a Swedish citizen this sends shivers down my spine. Since we have a rather weak constitution with little division of power we've relied on the good faith and judgement of our officials to avoid corruption, which has worked pretty well so far.
But now, to send people to jail, fully aware that he's affiliated with stakeholders in the case, that's just sickening.
Okay, swedish prisons for intellectual property offenders probably have a summer camp atmosphere to it, but that's not really the point. To take someones liberty should not be taken lightly.
- rbanffy 17y ago"have a summer camp atmosphere to it" Perhaps. But the climate won't help much ;-)
- vaksel 17y agoDoes swedish law has the thing where a verdict can be thrown out due to bias?
- eli 17y agoWell, I assume they wouldn't petition for something that doesn't exist. And the article makes clear that there's a court of appeals.
- vaksel 17y agowell yeah appeals is one thing, but it won't automatically clear them, I'm mainly thinking of how the Ted Stevens case was thrown out after a guilty verdict, due to prosecutor misconduct, surely there is the same thing for judges too.
- redrobot5050 17y agoExcept in the case of Ted Stevens, everyone realized that it was corruption, and the people that "let him off the hook" are now under investigation for corruption.
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- eli 17y agoIt was thrown out because the prosecutor (actually the US Atty General) asked the case to be canceled.
- jonas_b 17y agoI've taken some introductions to law, but this is not something I'm competent in, but I would assume that the defendants could get the verdict invalidated if they could prove that the judge's affiliation with affiliation with that association was of the nature that he should be unfit for duty. In all likelyhood, I think the outcome will have a lot to do with how media reacts to this. If they label the judge corrupt and fights for a retrial, the courts of appeal will have a hard time resisting.