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Does swedish law has the thing where a verdict can be thrown out due to bias?
by vaksel 18y ago
Does swedish law has the thing where a verdict can be thrown out due to bias?
- eli 18y 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 18y 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 18y 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 18y agoIt was thrown out because the prosecutor (actually the US Atty General) asked the case to be canceled.
- jonas_b 18y 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.