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2005-01-31 Home Front: Culture Wars

Oz judge demands info purged from web before trial

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-31 12:57:37 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh the sheer horror. Judges and lawyers do not get to pick and choose the evidence heard at a trial. Why real fact might get in the way of a decision. A defence lawyer can Google his client and demand a mistrial.

Posted by john 2005-01-31 1:46:03 PM|| 2005-01-31 1:46:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Virginia doesn't seem to grasp the internet. Just because she decrees all info be purged, it won't happen. More likely she's just set up a whole group on interested people who'll dissect her puny case.

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-31 1:53:20 PM|| 2005-01-31 1:53:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 ROFLMAO!!!

And the Internet, as one, looked up and said, "Huh? Piss up a rope, fool." and went on about its business.

Posted by .com 2005-01-31 1:53:49 PM|| 2005-01-31 1:53:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "...has called for the internet to be purged of any material likely to prejudice a trial, to prevent jurors conducting their own investigations into cases they are sitting on."

Oh, yeah. Purge the internet...

Thus proving that judges can be total idiots.
Q.E.D.

Posted by mojo 2005-01-31 2:00:09 PM|| 2005-01-31 2:00:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah good luck with that purge, buddy. Maybe ask Al Gore how it can be done, after all he invented it.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-01-31 2:04:49 PM|| 2005-01-31 2:04:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Next up: A(n Australian) Supreme Court judge has called for the sun to not shine, to insure jurors are kept in the dark.

Posted by DO 2005-01-31 2:45:37 PM|| 2005-01-31 2:45:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if someone will invent a "jury nullification" virus, otherwise harmless, that will just flash on computer screens the definition of jury nullification. I know that the mere mention of it makes a lot of judges apoplectic, and it is impossible to outlaw or prohibit unless the judge *directs* the jury to find the defendant guilty. I know that defendants have been held in contempt and mis-trials declared for even *mentioning* it in court, and some lawyer might demand that any infected computer be destroyed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-31 3:37:19 PM|| 2005-01-31 3:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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