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   XPost: can.politics, alt.politics, alt.revisionism   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:45:58 -0700, A Moose in Love wrote:   
      
   > In this day and age, the computer age if you will.  In this day and age   
   > it is possible to use the computer more and more in the courtroom.   
   > Legal decisions can be reached by the computer.  The programming of   
   > course will take time, but when completed, all that is needed are   
   > parameters to be entered.  Then out pops a decision.  There is very   
   > little need for the services of lawyers and judges except as assistants   
   > in the programming process. Take a hypothetical case:  Mr. A. 22 years   
   > old.  Was in foster homes most of life.  Beaten and abused.  Crime:   
   > Stealing an old womans purse and pushing her to the ground.   
   > Take these parameters (as well as any other necessary) and plug them in   
   > to the machine.  The computer takes into consideration in sentencing   
   > that this person was abused, yet did commit a violent crime.  etc.   
   > Out pops a verdict and sentence.   
   > Of course any new laws etc. are programmed into the computer etc. All   
   > Rise.  The Honourable H.A.L presiding, or the Honourable Hewlett Packard   
   > presiding...   
   > Our current legal workers could then be used in agricultural activities.   
   >  We would no longer need to import third world workers to pick our   
   > produce.  They could also learn valuable skills such as carpentry or if   
   > they're pissed off that they have to get their hands dirty, they could   
   > start in restaurants as entry level dishwashers.   
      
   Good idea, wrong area of application.  Most of the cost of "Law" and   
   Lawyers is in contractual law, which is highly amenable to the kind   
   of automation you propose.  Criminal law, which is where you derive   
   your example, talks about the rights, liberties and duties of individuals   
   and other things "beyond a shadow of a doubt" but by no means logically   
   derivable from the dataset presented to the courts.   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
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