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Old 27-01-2005, 23:48   #74
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Re: House Arrest

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Originally Posted by punky
Yes, but that would mean exposing the jury, lawyers, judge, stenographers to information that they would be better off not knowing. What if a jury member had a brother who worked in Canary Warf and Canary Warf had been actively targetted 5 times in a month, every month? The jury member would be tormented.
So you can justify the government imprisoning who it wants because any evidence presented might scare the jurors?

A lot of court cases expose the jury and other people in the court to information that they would probably be better off not knowing. Maybe we should imprison the defendants in those cases too?
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