Jurors weighing evidence in a public inquest into the shooting death of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist cannot find that he was unlawfully killed, a judge said Tuesday.Which can only mean that, in the UK, killing unarmed innocents is lawful.
[Via Declan]
This also raises the question of, if a judge can tell jurors what they can and cannot find, what is the point of having a jury?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately this is a path we've started down also, with juries not being informed they have the right to judge law as well as facts, but it sounds like the UK is even farther gone than us.
But, when a long train of abuses evinces a design to render them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty...
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