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Mar. 11th, 2008 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Vigilante justice, a more complicated matter than I realised. Out of the seventeen cases I have managed to find so far, five of them ended well for the defendant. Across all cases, the defendant believed they were in the right. Only seven were publically vilified for their actions, leading me to the assumption that it was a point of pride and not opinion that lead to the downfall of five of them. Those who enter Cleraine have surrendered their right to dispence justice themselves, and the right to sentence anyone falls to the Lady Atsir. Father Terrance is already off on the wrong foot.
There was no common plea, or defence besides the obvious. There was no commonality in the cases besides drawing the ire of those in power. The isolation of Cleraine prevents interferance from outside powers prevailing very much. If this weren't such a high profile instance, I am sure the decision would have already been made in Lady Laeleena's mind. Though I shouldn't get ahead of myself. There is every chance she already has. Still, armed with this, I believe I may actually stand a chance of giving him a decent defence. I should bring it to his attention tommorow.
I will be glad when we leave the desert, and I can stop studying Atsirian law.
Vigilante justice, a more complicated matter than I realised. Out of the seventeen cases I have managed to find so far, five of them ended well for the defendant. Across all cases, the defendant believed they were in the right. Only seven were publically vilified for their actions, leading me to the assumption that it was a point of pride and not opinion that lead to the downfall of five of them. Those who enter Cleraine have surrendered their right to dispence justice themselves, and the right to sentence anyone falls to the Lady Atsir. Father Terrance is already off on the wrong foot.
There was no common plea, or defence besides the obvious. There was no commonality in the cases besides drawing the ire of those in power. The isolation of Cleraine prevents interferance from outside powers prevailing very much. If this weren't such a high profile instance, I am sure the decision would have already been made in Lady Laeleena's mind. Though I shouldn't get ahead of myself. There is every chance she already has. Still, armed with this, I believe I may actually stand a chance of giving him a decent defence. I should bring it to his attention tommorow.
I will be glad when we leave the desert, and I can stop studying Atsirian law.
