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Originally Posted by MBates
All judges are human and while the election process may well significantly increase the risk that a judge will decide based on publicity and popular events, these issues must still be guarded against here.
Former Chief Justice McLachlin recently addressed concerns that social media movements may be setting expectations that all trials where accused are not convicted are therefore an injustice:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ticle36763554/
And this comes from a recent dissenting judgment on a sexual assault case from Alberta:
I would say examples of where trial judges are acting based on popular opinion or trying to put on some kind of show for the public or media are exceedingly rare but in part because we are always having to be aware not to allow such things to inappropriately creep into the courtroom.
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I see where you're going with this, and I like it!
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