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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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      29. But precisely because of high bar of evidence & goal of reaching defensible verdict, courts aren't where truth is settled, just cases.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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      30. Outside the courts, we have many other institutions and methods for trying to get at reality: journalism, scholarship, common sense.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014
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      31. The point of these notes isn't to denigrate legal system but to get a realistic sense of what it does, what it can and can't do.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2014

      32. RT @JoelGord "Justice? - you get justice in the next world, in this world, you have the law." - Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

      10:18 PM - 21 Nov 2014 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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        1. lia grace‏ @liawgrace 21 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet @JoelGord I know my next world will be paradise so I'm fighting like h-e-double hockey sticks for justice now! Ferguson! Chelsea!

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        1. Dr Dr Dr Hero of Socialist Labor, JD, PhD, TL‏ @jamescappio 21 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet @JoelGord Always nice to see Mr. Gaddis retweeted.

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