Comment on YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoThat’s hilarious, the jury wasn’t fucking around. I wonder if the US uses that law since we were under the crown at the time? Did we inherit any laws from before we claimed independence? I never thought about that.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 days ago
We adopted a lot of the English legal system since a lot of the same courts were still operating before, during and after the revolution. We just wrote a bunch more stuff down (since for some reason even really important stuff in English law is still this kind of “everyone knows it’s that way” weird type of oral history system.) We also modified certain aspects in a more democratic spirit. But a lot of the bedrock, things like precedent, judges, juries, appeals, habeas corpus, and so on, comes from that system, so Bushel’s Case is still relevant in terms of talking about the nature of the judge/jury relationship.
mkwt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Except Louisiana. Louisiana is instead gifted with laws from Napoleonic France.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
That makes sense, could you elaborate some of the big differences? I had no idea.