on a scale of 1 to 10, how big of a farce is TNP's judicial system?

[King Durk the Awesome]

let the people decide

 

[Romanoffia]

I'd say it's become rather arbitrary and capricious and, at times, appears to be being used as a political tool rather than a means to providing justice. And I qualify this statement by virtue of having been a justice of the court in the past.

Trials take forever to conduct, and, in the case of your trial, I would say it is a complete farce in relation to the conduct of that trial. I would also conclude that any reasonable person would say that any right to a fair trial or a speedy trial has obviously expired in this case.

From the platform of The Reform Party of The North Pacific:

Government exists to protect the rights of every nation and individual. Criminal laws should be limited to violation of the rights of others through force or fraud, or deliberate actions that place others involuntarily at significant risk of harm.

Nations and individuals retain the right to voluntarily assume risk of harm to themselves.

We support restitution of the victim to the fullest degree possible at the expense of the criminal or the negligent wrongdoer.

We oppose reduction of constitutional safeguards of the rights of the criminally accused.

The rights of due process, a speedy trial, legal counsel, trial by jury, and the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, must not be denied.

We assert the common-law right of juries to judge not only the facts but also the justice of the law.

In light of these principles, I would like to know, in the instance of your Trial, JAL, where is the jury? Who is the jury? Is there even a jury? And will this trial be concluded before the next Ice Age? I mean, it's been going on so long that there is a T Rex and a Veloceraptor waiting to testify.

Add to that list of principles, and if I read the trial procedures correctly, a distaste for people being removed arbitrarily and capriciously from the RA list without due process.

But this is what happens when a power elite works the system to maintain the power elite and as such, is one of a few indicators that there needs to be reform. And this is one of the reason I have founded the Reform Party.

 

[Grosseschnauzer]

The problem in the previous trial was the decision to ignore the rules adopted by the Court that governed the procedure prior to and during a trial. There was no reason for the trial to have a three-member panel; that's for judicial review of government action, and not for criminal charges.
And the rules on the preparation of evidence and testimony prior to trial were likewise ignored by that particular court. With the recorded testimony from the prior trial, there's no reason to have any problem having the transcript of those persons who testified as witnesses edited to exclude matters not admissible, and just repost it when the trial starts, along with the evidence that's already been prepared and presented at the earlier trial.

There's no reason why the second trial should take more than two weeks, and that's with pre-trial motions. I'm not voting in the poll, just pointing out what should be obvious.

 

[Flemingovia]

No. Those rules are far too complex for a game. And neither JAL or I will play along any more with this trial. As Roman has said, the chance of a fair trial is now zero.

 

[Eluvatar]

I am not participating in this poll.

 

[Romanoffia]

No. Those rules are far too complex for a game. And neither JAL or I will play along any more with this trial. As Roman has said, the chance of a fair trial is now zero.

JAL's 'trial' is all becoming vaguely reminiscent of the 'trial scene' from Pink Floyd The Wall, only without good music and good drugs.