Wednesday, June 20, 2018

About bias in criminal proceedings

How many times have you heard about removing bias when seating juries?  The thing you hear is that juries are selected after filling out long questionaires, which are created in order to weed out any potential juror who may be biased.

As far as I know, no such means exist to weed out biased investigators.

Therefore, let's say you have a jurisdiction, such as Washington DC, which voted 96% for Hillary, who are to investigate Hillary Clinton.  How can they not be biased?

Also, if only 4% voted for Trump, then how can they possibly be fair to Trump?

I'd say that this is a real problem.  If you have a completely biased jurisdiction, you should be able to do something about that.

Trump's legal team can demand a change of venue.

What would the Dems say if Hillary's case were to be transferred from DC to a state very hostile to her?

You know what they would say.


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