--- Jorpho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >But the way the ICC is set up, they would not recieve a trial by their > > >peers. Without that we do not beleive that IUPG works. > > > > Then you really need to study how things are done in other countries. > I'll > > use The Netherlands as an example: we don't have trial by jury here, but > > people are still considered innocent until proven guilty. In every > > civilised country in the world, people are considered innocent until > proven > > guilty -- and I bet that most of those countries don't have trial by > jury. > > > > The difference is that over here we leave decisions about > guilty/not-guilty > > to people who have actually been trained to do this (the judges), not to > a > > small group of people who usually have never even seen the inside of a > Law > > School, let alone graduated from one. > > > > Really, I don't understand why anyone would want to leave such decisions > to > > a bunch of untrained amateurs. After all, when you're feeling sick, who > > would you turn to for the diagnosis: a trained professional (a physician) > > or a small group of "peers" who haven't had extensive medical training? > > Indeed. I have read some criticism that trial by jury is not that it's all > cracked up to be. For instance, there was once court case where the baliff > happened to cough before delivering a guilty verdict to the judge, who > interpreted his statement as "not guilty". There was a lengthy, costly > tangle in the legal system before the mistake could be righted. > > It has been said that there is a certain dramatic allure to the whole > secret > process of sending the jury off to deliberate before unveiling with a > flourish what they agreed on, without any consderation given to how they > arrived at this conclusion. But it might also be said that it would be too > costly to train large numbers of people in the minutae of the law. > > -J >
I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would trust someone who does it for a living. That is too much power, and IMO Judges already have too much power. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com [Sponsored by:] _____________________________________________________________________________ The newest lyrics on the Net! http://lyrics.astraweb.com Click NOW!