Jury Deliberations

[cityship]

After listening to the prosecution’s case and the defense’s case, the eight person jury was ushered into a secure and empty room to determine the fate of the Yeerk known as Schmuz-44356. The charges presented to the court were as follows:

11 counts of Kidnapping
2 counts of Attempted Kidnapping
13 counts of Conspiracy to Kidnap
11 counts of Enslavement
2 counts of Attempted Enslavement
13 counts of Conspiracy to Enslave
7 counts of Attempted Murder
28 counts of Assault with Intent to Kill
35 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Murder

Let the deliberations begin...

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[riseupnchargem.livejournal.com]

Jamie flicks a glance at the older man, then at the rest of the jury, and uneasily chews his lip. "I, um. Think we should," he says in an undertone. "Kill it, I mean."

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

This, he had not had to think too long on. Whatever the crimes were (and the charges seemed very inflated to him, but then again Luke had seen war crimes trials and they were often used to make examples to any other potential warmongerers in the area), it was not up to them to decide who lived and died, not like this.

"I vote for imprisonment. I don't want to kill it." Again, he had spoke in his soft, calm, Grand Master's voice.

[literaryloser.livejournal.com]

Fitz hesitated. As much as he harbored a damn heavy prejudice against the thing, he had learned one thing from the Doctor; senseless violence and killing was wrong. No matter what.

"I'll say imprisonment." Sure, it'd be cruel, but it wasn't death. And he wouldn't worry about the little bastard.

[ladyofthesands.livejournal.com]

"Imprisonment," Arha said simply. "I would say exile, but that is not an option. In any case, imprisonment is the fair course to take." It was with a old voice that she spoke, one that had much behind it.

Killing served no purpose, but imprisonment was always more just.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

You don't kill a prisoner of war. That's what it starts to come down to, in her head. The man (and she suddenly realizes she thinks of him that way: a man, a person, not an it, not impersonal), the whatever-he-is, he was a soldier.

An unwilling soldier—an image flashes into her head. The eastern front was forever full of terrible things. Child pilots, brainwashed and unsure, convinced by the Migou that the NEG forces were terrible monsters—

She swallows sharply, focusing herself again. It's—she can't decide. She can't fucking decide, she realizes, and her arms tense against herself. What if—but—well...

It clicks. She's not going to kill a person—a person, she repeats in her head—because she's indecisive. If it wasn't bad enough to make her decide on the other, then there's only one option left.

"Imprisonment," she says, and swallows sharply again. Her throat feels dry and cold.

[bluerose-knight.livejournal.com]

Sparhawk already knew what he was going to say once he decided that the Yeerk would be guilty.

"Imprisonment," he adds his voice to the others.

They had no right to take the life of one who was just following orders, and who was too scared to do anything.

[hero-sting.livejournal.com]

Once Chris knew that the Yeerk would be guilty, there was only one decision left for Chris. The sentencing which was pretty easy in his opinion.

"Imprisonment, easily." His voice betrayed what he was feeling. Nervousness. They had no right to take the life of someone just for following orders.