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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Jury Nullification is like the secret code of the US justice system.That's why most of the people that work for the system absolutely despised the whole idea.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 minutes ago

The us justice system is already fucked up and make a joke lf the term justice.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 hour ago
[–] Ranjr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They always bring up that quote about being able to indict a ham sandwich but they never specify the charges.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 35 minutes ago

Also doesn't apply if that's ham as in cop.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

There is zero information on why they didn't indict, so I'm not celebrating until we find out why.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

It could be that the software isn't accurate enough to be evidence on its own. Similar to how identifying someone in a lineup is notoriously inaccurate. They may be able to use it for probably cause in a search warrant, but without other supporting evidence, they may not have a case.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 33 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Probably because he was with some of them trading Pokémon cards at the time, couldn’t have been him, everyone has a doppelgänger

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 50 minutes ago (3 children)

Come to think of it, how accurately can facial recognition tell apart to people who look very similar?

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 8 points 37 minutes ago

Zero. Zero accurately. They don't even talk about it, because they don't care. The arbitrary cruelty is a bonus feature.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Facial recognition has an inherent bias as well, or at least it did not too long ago. It was mostly trained on white people, so it's accuracy with non whites was really bad. I'm sure the training data is far more robust now, but that doesn't necessarily mean better.

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)
[–] Akh@lemmy.world 4 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Nah you are confused he was with me feeding the homeless

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 27 minutes ago

You must be mistaken, he was helping me load up my truck with mulch for the community garden. He even bought me lunch afterwards.