Indiana Supreme Court<\/a> seems to be reinstating convictions a hell of a lot lately.<\/p>\nIn a just criminal justice system, a system which required of judges the same consensus we require of jurors, an “acquittal” at any step of the appellate process would end the defendant’s Jeopardy.<\/p>\n
It’s only natural for judges employed by the State to believe in the State and its works more than your average bear. I wonder whether, by the same psychological logic, judges invested with more power by the State are even bigger believers than judges invested with less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For possession of marijuana. The criminalization of which is itself criminal. The Indiana Supreme Court seems to be reinstating convictions a hell of a lot lately. In a just criminal justice system, a system which required of judges the same consensus we require of jurors, an “acquittal” at any step of the appellate process would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,101,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consensus","category-judges","category-war-on-drugs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}