{"id":5728,"date":"2011-07-14T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/14\/links-for-2011-07-14\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:11:13","slug":"links-for-2011-07-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/14\/links-for-2011-07-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-07-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2299039\/pagenum\/all\/\">Jamie Leigh Jones verdict: Jury trials aren&#8217;t always satisfying, but they&#8217;re better than angry mobs. &#8211; By Dahlia Lithwick &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">As Alan Dershowitz explained last week: &#8220;A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. That&#8217;s because only one person is on trial in a criminal case, and if that one person is acquitted, then by definition there can be no justice for the victim in that trial.&#8221; If all that sounds cold, lawyerly, and inhuman, that&#8217;s because the justice system is designed to be all those things. Juries are not driven solely by the bottomless outrage of Nancy Grace. That&#8217;s what makes them juries. There is nothing much to like about the slick reality show that was the Anthony trial. But that the jury understood the difference between what their guts told them and what the law demanded of them may be called its sole success.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lithwick\">lithwick<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/crime\">crime<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Leigh Jones verdict: Jury trials aren&#8217;t always satisfying, but they&#8217;re better than angry mobs. &#8211; By Dahlia Lithwick &#8211; Slate Magazine As Alan Dershowitz explained last week: &#8220;A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. That&#8217;s because only one person is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/14\/links-for-2011-07-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-07-14<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}