Rigby5
Diamond Member
You're clearly not an American. Either that or you're just flat out ignorant of the Judicial branch.
You are the one who is ignorant of how law works.
Judges have no authority of their own, and only borrow the authority delegated to them by the people who have been harmed and the judicial system is trying to protect.
In a criminal trial, there is no other litigant whose rights need to be defended, other than the vague idea that a penalty may act as some possible future deterrent against similar actions.
So the standard of judgement is much higher.
When there is no other litigant to consider and defend, then guilt must be "Beyond a reasonable doubt".
Which means innocence has to essentially be impossible.
The judicial branch has no authority to use civil trial standards of 51% and apply them to a punishment that takes away rights, in what then is a criminal verdict.