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by diggan 275 days ago
> Ideally, any accusations like this should first go through a careful examination by a jury of one’s peers rather than just being posted willy nilly.

Does Norway even have juries? At least in Sweden we don't have any juries in court (and the two countries tend to be more similar than not), so while the overall comment sounds fitting (and I agree), some details seem to miss the detail of what country this is about :)
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Y-bar 275 days ago
Both Norway and Sweden have Lay Judges in the lower courts (which is little more than voluntary juries):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judge

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diggan 275 days ago
Nämndemän (Lay Judges) are nothing like juries, at least how I understand juries. In lower courts (tingsrätt), those people are appointed by the city council, and the people chosen are often politically involved (yet the appointment is "unpolitical"), they're not just "randoms" who got called to be in the jury, like how I understand the juries in the US to work.
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Y-bar 275 days ago
The randomness of selection is the only difference of any significance. Lay judges and juries have the same amount of judicial power and knowledge.

Edit: it has been pointed out to me that lay judges have even more powers such as interpretation of law than juries, which seems dangerous.

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renewiltord 275 days ago
Haha, I was explaining how it should be. Not how it is.
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