Malta Cannot Keep Outsourcing Justice And Calling It Common Sense
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Ordinary citizens in Malta are tasked with deciding if individuals should spend their lives in prison. These nine citizens must evaluate technical evidence and reconcile expert opinions. They apply legal tests in cases that have taken lawyers and investigators years to handle. The process treats professional experience as optional for these decisions.
Deciding whether someone should spend the rest of their life in prison is a strange place to insist that professional experience is optional. Yet nine ordinary citizens are asked to assess technical evidence, reconcile competing expert opinions and apply unfamiliar legal tests, often in cases that have occupied investigators and lawyers for years. Lorin Scicluna’s … Continued •