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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tweets Rulings

Posted by Unknown on from the 2-cnts-mrdr-2nd-dgree dept.

Landing an accepted submission, notanymore writes "The PA Supreme Court now has a Twitter account to post rulings and opinions. How could this be a bad thing? It's progression toward making public information more easily accessible. Some argue that it's public shaming but isn't it the same as a newspaper reporting on local crime?"

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  1. Supreme Courts Don't Do That by RobinEggs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Supreme Courts don't examine criminal cases to determine the Truth. They almost never examine them for anything but findings of law: was the case tried in good accordance with all criminal and trial laws that applied? If they think it was, the lower court rulings stand. If they think it wasn't, they direct the lower court to retry the case or some such thing. Supreme Court decisions don't examine or comment on whether the accused is guilty or innocent, and they don't even care 'what really happened' or 'who the real killer was'.

    As such it's awfully difficult to imagine many cases in which their decisions could bring shame to anyone except a bad lawyer.