Re: DIS: [Discussion] Criminal Cases
On 6/8/2020 12:16 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > Would you like to see criminal cases decided by judges again? Why or why > not? Discussion and debate are welcome. If you're asking my preference, no (as the rules are written now), and maybe (AFTER we've actually implemented - i.e. adopted - the split between crimes and infractions).
Re: DIS: [Discussion] Criminal Cases
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:16 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > Would you like to see criminal cases decided by judges again? Why or why > not? Discussion and debate are welcome. > > -Aris I've been thinking about this as I've been working on the reform of crimes, and I think that we shouldn't go back to judicial criminal cases right now. I think that low-level things should always be dealt with by an officer because otherwise the burden of management is too great, and we've just enacted an interesting mechanism for dealing with higher level things.
Re: DIS: [Discussion] Criminal Cases
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:17 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Would you like to see criminal cases decided by judges again? Why or why > not? Discussion and debate are welcome. > > -Aris > Nope! An elected referee with a high level of discretion and also the added bonus of democratic election/legitimacy will lead to more consistent outcomes than ad hoc judges. -- >From R. Lee
DIS: [Discussion] Criminal Cases
Would you like to see criminal cases decided by judges again? Why or why not? Discussion and debate are welcome. -Aris
