UK Scraps Juries for Rich Criminals, Call It 'Efficiency'
The Bloomberg headline reads, "Jury Trials To Be Scrapped in England For Complex Financial Crimes." What it's really saying is that if you're rich enough to commit a crime that requires more than a simple flow chart to understand, your fate will be decided by someone other than your peers. According to the reporting, this is to ensure 'efficiency' – because we all know nothing slows down the
wheels of justice like ordinary citizens daring to understand white-collar theft. This isn't about 'efficiency'; it's about insulating the financial elite from public judgment. The system, it appears, prefers its high-stakes fraudsters to be judged by specially chosen 'experts' (who are, coincidentally, paid by the same system) rather than by a jury of citizens who might, God forbid, harbor
un-nuanced views on stealing billions. One might wonder if the complexity truly overwhelms jurors, or if the sheer scale of financial malfeasance simply makes it harder to spin a tale to 12 random people. Conveniently, the same 'complexity' argument isn't applied to street-level crimes, where the accused still gets a jury.