Panther wrote on Jan 10
th, 2016 at 8:56am:
MHO.....judge only trials are too subject to individual corruption, for it's far to easy to develop bias in the mind of a single jurist, as opposed to 12 average, basically honest & unbiased people, examined by both the prosecution & defense to be so, who are set to decide your fate to the best of their ability based on fact & truth.
Judge only trials are too often the tools of a tyrannical government, far too disinterested in truth & justice.
i dont see that at all.. our system is pretty well in safe hands..for the most part....I wouldnt like it like America where they get elected to the bench...
what annoys me with this appeal judgement..its all about interpretation....and we each see things differently.....
we can read the simplest sentence in different ways..
just look at how we read HISTORY...politics... we arent there so we put our own spin on what we THINK HAPPENED...and each one is different...
its the way we are...we are not programmed
and I am sorry but manslaughter and murder....are two totally different things....
and to bring it down to the interpretation of the
lawas 3 wisemen would reason it...
they do after all have other cases to compare with...
but which no jury would have reason to know about.. in fact an awful lot is withheld from juries........
it is imo wrong..
nothing we can do about it.. we have to accept the verdict when it comes.. but we dont have to like it.. if it remains manslaughter.....
There speaks the voice of absolute lack of experience..