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Topic	Swedish court follows Islamic law.
scar the 1 03/07/18 8:16:01 AM #10:	NibeIungsnarf posted... scar the 1 posted... Yeah AFAIK the ruling was appealed. And the people who made the ruling already got fired. Discussions are even starting about restructuring the justice system so this can't happen. So what you're saying is that everybody in Sweden, including the people who represent the justice system agrees this was a slip-up and are now fixing the word of the law that allowed it to happen? Time for everyone to panic, I guess. Pretty much, yeah. Swedish courts don't have jurors, they have something similar called something like "councilmen". These are nominated by the political parties, however the purpose isn't that they should make politics, only apply the law. Anyone can be nominated to be a councilman. In the lowest court instance there is one judge and three councilmen. IIRC the higher instances have 3:2 favoring judges with law degrees and finally 5:0. So in this case, two councilmen from the same party (I forget what BL usually calls them, they're kinda neolibs but I suppose these two were Muslim?) found the evidence weak and justified the verdict by stuff like "Women often lie about these things", "She didn't contact her in-law family before the police, that's weird", "She didn't cry while testifying in court", "He was from a better family". The judge on the case thought this was really weird but couldn't do much. And now as this has gotten attention, the party that nominated these two have really denounced the verdict, and there's been a lot of discussion about changing the system because it's a bit weird to have political parties nominating councilmen. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:897326264] in Swedish co... [t:76389144]...</cite> <quote><cite>NibeIungsnarf posted...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote>Yeah AFAIK the ruling was appealed. And the people who made the ruling already got fired. Discussions are even starting about restructuring the justice system so this can't happen.</quote> So what you're saying is that everybody in Sweden, including the people who represent the justice system agrees this was a slip-up and are now fixing the word of the law that allowed it to happen? Time for everyone to panic, I guess.</quote> Pretty much, yeah. Swedish courts don't have jurors, they have something similar called something like "councilmen". These are nominated by the political parties, however the purpose isn't that they should make politics, only apply the law. Anyone can be nominated to be a councilman. In the lowest court instance there is one judge and three councilmen. IIRC the higher instances have 3:2 favoring judges with law degrees and finally 5:0. So in this case, two councilmen from the same party (I forget what BL usually calls them, they're kinda neolibs but I suppose these two were Muslim?) found the evidence weak and justified the verdict by stuff like "Women often lie about these things", "She didn't contact her in-law family before the police, that's weird", "She didn't cry while testifying in court", "He was from a better family". The judge on the case thought this was really weird but couldn't do much. And now as this has gotten attention, the party that nominated these two have really denounced the verdict, and there's been a lot of discussion about changing the system because it's a bit weird to have political parties nominating councilmen. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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