Mod Abuse Court

over 7 years

Status

Awating cases

Please PM ideas to me

About

With claims of mod abuse posted multiple times a week, I'd like to provide a method for people to legitimately express their concerns without cluttering the forums and to examine those claims in a fair and unbiased fashion.

Logistics

To suggest a case to be heard, post in this topic or PM to me the name of the mod in question along with a short synopsis of the supposed abuse.

If I decide to hear an case, I will select 5 jury members by interviewing those who have previously volunteered. Jury members will be selected on the basis of being unbiased and creating a diverse overall jury. Jurors remain anonymous until after the case's conclusion and are removed and replaced if they reveal their juror status before then.

With a 5-member jury constructed, I will publicly announce the case here and privately contact the plaintiff and defendant. Each must nominate someone to represent them as an attorney, and (while not advised) they are allowed to nominate themselves. There are no rules as to who may be nominated as an attorney and even an undisclosed alt may be chosen.

With attorneys chosen, I will designate a 24 hour deadline by which the plaintiff must submit their statement to this topic. The defendant will have exactly 24 hours after the submission of the plaintiff's to submit their own statement. Failure to submit a statement by the deadline for either side results in the jury not considering that side's statement.

After the defense posts their statement, the jury will deliberate privately, PMing me their votes within 24 hours. Jury members may not abstain from voting, and failure to send me a vote will be counted as a vote for innocent.

The result of whether the mod has been found guilty or innocent of mod abuse will be posted here and submitted to the admin(s). Failure by the admin(s) to punish a mod in the case of a guilty verdict will likely result in a community riot and angry emails to Lucid, which has precedence for being effective.

Other details:

There is no double jeopardy and there is no higher court to appeal to, meaning all decisions are final.
Mods and admins cannot be jury members.
If I am unable to construct a 5-member jury, I will construct a 3-member jury instead and replace the missing two members with innocent votes.
As always, and jury members will be continuously informed of this, the defense is considered innocent until proven guilty. I hope the logistics of this court demonstrate this philosophy as well.
Potential jury members will not know what the case is about during their interviews.

Past Cases

None

Pro Bono Lawyers

johnreid (Prosecution only)

Jury Volunteers

Post below if you want to volunteer.

The

about 7 years

Shwartz99 says

I'll be taking charley to court for not having a better password.

You can have the best password in the world, but it doesn't do much good if you give it out to people.

deletedabout 7 years

Shwartz99 says

I'll be taking charley to court for not having a better password.

I liked it, I think it was genuine.

Shwartz99

about 7 years

I'll be taking charley to court for not having a better password.

Enamored

over 7 years

id say pending rather than over

The

over 7 years

Well it looks like this case is over: https://epicmafia.com/topic/85446

deletedover 7 years

I'm going to come clean whether this lowers or raises my chances of being a juror. I don't really know expose and I'm not very involved or informed w/ the politics of EM, however, I feel that after spending a year on this site if I'm going to continue I might as well contribute in any little ways possible.

Marco

over 7 years

It's good to see the jury has such a large amount of members now.

deletedover 7 years

I wanna jury

deletedover 7 years

I'll jury

The

over 7 years

You can provide your testimony to one of the lawyers for them to use as part of their statement.

Bebop

over 7 years

can i be the star witness

Becomeclear

over 7 years

jury me

float

over 7 years

i want to be on the jury

The

over 7 years

If you wish to be considered for the jury of this case you have 24 hours left to volunteer.

The

over 7 years

johnreid says

A high profile case like this should have a proper jury selection process.

We need a large number of potential jurors and both prosecution and defence should be given the chance to stand aside / challenge jurors. This case will be highly prejudicial and the jury must be selected carefully to avoid bias.

Definitely. I intend to consult both sides of the issue when examining potential jurors for truthfulness in their interview. However, the final jurors will not be revealed until after the case to prevent bribery.

Betrayal

over 7 years

Happeh says

lemme be on the jury... im not a mod or nuffin

this is Epic Mafia user Kerry aka Enamored

deletedover 7 years

lemme be on the jury... im not a mod or nuffin

Enamored

over 7 years

damn

GentIeman

over 7 years

I'll be a lawyer yolo

LadyNemesis

over 7 years

You need its lady on the jury as well.

deletedover 7 years

you need the vondoom on the jury.

johnreid

over 7 years

Jury members by nature should not be allowed to do their own research.

yoyo200900

over 7 years

I'll be in the jury as long as I don't have to do my own research. I'll look at the evidence presented and nothing more. I don't know anything about this yet.

Toge

over 7 years

LET ME BE JURY!! I HAVE NO FRIENDS LET ME BE JURY I WONT BE BIASED I VOLUNTEER!!!!

johnreid

over 7 years

A high profile case like this should have a proper jury selection process.

We need a large number of potential jurors and both prosecution and defence should be given the chance to stand aside / challenge jurors. This case will be highly prejudicial and the jury must be selected carefully to avoid bias.