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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if a good lawyer could argue that any jury that finds him guilty are, by definition, not his peers.

[–] WraithGear 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t see that working even if the court system hadn’t evolved into an apparatus solely for the enforcement of class strata. His peers are the general public.