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Which powerful groups do court rules and standard of evidence prioritize?
by origin_path 4y ago
Which powerful groups do court rules and standard of evidence prioritize?
- naasking 4y agoThose with finances and influence. Or do you think that public defenders and private attorneys yield comparable outcomes? As but one example.
- origin_path 4y agoThe whole point of standards of evidence and court rules is to diminish the importance of influence. Those rules and standards also don't "prioritize" people with finances: there is nothing in any rule or standard that says "give priority to people with more money". The exacting nature of the system does mean expertise is worth money, but that's not an explicit design goal of that system.