Comments on: No Jury Duty https://windypundit.com/2013/10/no-jury-duty/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Eric Strauss https://windypundit.com/2013/10/no-jury-duty/#comment-9825 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:22:51 +0000 http://windypundit.com/?p=5813#comment-9825 When I was younger – maybe 26 – I voted to find a man guilty on drugs and weapons charges. It was based on the testimony of two cops who said they saw the man throw something, and then found the bag of drugs where they had seen the thing be thrown. And then they said they found a gun on him.

I regret now very much what I did. I still think about it rather often, and I feel guilt over having perpretrated injustice – the crime had no victim, and, in retrospect, the case was comprised of dubious evidence relying almost entirely on police testimony.

I take some solace in the truth that I just didn’t know any better back then.

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