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Re: Sentenced to death based partly on the Old Testament...
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Originally Posted by Swoop187
That's unconstitutional.
You might as well say one cant make a decision based on ones personal morals or ethics and THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT RELIGION IS.
What is a judge going to do next? manufacture an outcome via jury instructions?
Call a mistrial fine, call for a sentencing appeal, whatever, but these people are with in their LEGAL rights to use the Bible.
Are "unpolitically correct" ethics deemed as outside influences too?
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No one is saying jurors can't rely on their moral convictions or that they can't use things they've learned from the Bible to help them make a judgment. The problem is actually, physically having Bibles in the deliberation room. That isn't allowed.
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