16. But for those of us who aren't in criminal justice system or on a jury, we're allowed to make our own judgement on what's been presented
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17. In cases not before court like Cosby, epistemological modesty has to extend to both accused and accusers.
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18. If we can't say with certainty that Cosby is guilty, we can't say with certainty that his accusers are lying.
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19. What we can say is that we don't know final truth, but the sheer number of accusations, their similarity, etc. has to be taken seriously
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20. There are accusations against Cosby. They have to be taken seriously and can't be dismissed out of hand. That's where we are right now.
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21. Okay, I'm going to go a bit further in my claims: I don't think it is ever the job of the courts to discover the truth of a case
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22. What are the courts doing? It's not searching for absolute truth, but rather for coming up with legal decision the system can live with.
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23. The job of the courts is coming up with a defensible verdict, a verdict that the system can point to and say, "that's reasonable."
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24. In trying to come up with a defensible verdict, the court processes facts -- but only certain facts, facts that follow the rules.
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25. Courts have rules for letting in facts, which are part of process of creating defensible verdict, but not for getting at ultimate truth
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26. To say courts are aiming at defensible verdict doesn't (for me at least) invalidate what they do. That's a reasonable goal.
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27. But the reasonable activity courts do is not primarily a truth-seeking activity (even if it involves processing facts). Remember that.
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28. One goal courts can have is to allow no untruths in verdict. And it's appropriate that they have very high bar of evidence.
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