PUB2 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: General Idea, Pliers, Willful Blindness

• School: McGill University
• Department: Public Law 2
• Course: PUB2 111
• Professor: Maxime Hebrard

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The more witnesses you have, the most confusing versions of the same event. The reliability of eye-witnesses our brain fills in the blanks. Truth seeker: we will find truth within the limits we have found for ourselves. Judges will have to forgo the truth in our mind, e. g. exclude vital piece of evidence. Can/ and will the prosecution do it properly within the boundaries of the law and still come to the same conclusion that there is enough to find guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. E. g. what happens if someone blinks, smiles too much, etc. What we learned may not be the same for others. We need to forgo all that and be objective. Exercise: allow ourselves to react spontaneously, highway traffic example. Point: as we had in information, our conclusion changed. Judge (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t isolate fa(cid:272)ts; (cid:373)ust look at (cid:449)hole pi(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e. You (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)idence. Jude must ground conclusion in facts and reasons.