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Yeah, this is getting just plain ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where I wonder if the defense didn't actually want to lose the case just to point out how
by smokinn 17y ago
Yeah, this is getting just plain ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where I wonder if the defense didn't actually want to lose the case just to point out how thoroughly the justice system has been infiltrated by big media interests.
- rms 17y agoI do suspect that; the defense seemed too competent to not know that the original judge had a conflict of interest. They let it ride knowing it gave them a literal get out of jail free card in the case of being found guilty.
- rms 17y agoBeyond that, it also plays into the defense's stated goal of portraying the trial as a ridiculous circus.
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- rms 17y agoI would estimate the probability that the defense knew about the bias before the trial as >90%. That was why they called it a spectrial. It was conducted only for the sake of spectacle as it was not legally binding. Definitely one of the more deeply funny tricks TPB has ever pulled.