[Pandagames]

I would do pretty well on being unbiased

Okay new rule:

The jury can't have any connections of any kind with the players involved

[Cogohst]

I would do pretty well on being unbiased

Okay new rule:

The jury can't have any connections of any kind with the players involved

The only way this could be accomplished is to have brand new players on the jury. Not only woudl this turn people off the server, we can't exactly trust them to be competent enough to know what's going on. Even then, there's no way we can guarantee they have no connection to the player, as I just have to hit the PM button and type up a wall of malarkey to make me seem like a nice guy, when in reality I could be shuffling through their wallet while they defend me over the general chat like a crazed cultist following the "Chosen One". The Chosen One of course takes control of everyones personal finance and takes all the women as wives.

[mastertegm]

Great idea panthers, Minerealm could probably use something like this. I personally think that this should be a whole section of the forum, and individual cases should be be topics.

[panthers17nfl]

In response to Cerevox: We can still do the minor tweaks we always do. But if a player wishes to change something drastically or add new "legislation", this would be what its for.

[panthers17nfl]

So I'm not sure as of now as to whether the MRDC will get its own subtopic or what. For now, here is where cases get posted:

• Civil Suits get posted on the Bans section. Posting anywhere else will be compeltely ignored. The title of this thread should be: "Civil Suit: <Yourname> vs. <Player you are charging>"
  Conceptual Suits get posted on the Site Discussion section. No, not the one that is flooded with posts. The one right below the Chat section. That one. Site Discussion. The title of this thread should be: "Conceptual Suit: <Yourname> vs. MineRealm".

And no, you do not need to actually include the <>'s.

Also, some quick clarification:

• You cannot charge someone in a Civil Suit if a rule in the Book of Rules has not clearly been broken. This means that if you cannot provide any evidence, or if something that player has done is not mentioned in or not prohibited by the Book of Rules, you have no case.
  
  This is not the place to have terrible grammar, anger, immaturity, or stubbornness. I know that is a stretch for some of you, but keep it as level-headed as possible. You can lose a case simply by losing control.

Just a basic layout for what a case should look like:
Prosecution: Your name / your cause.
Defendant: The player you are trying to convict. In the case of a Conceptual Suit, you would put MineRealm.

The Brief: A brief is essentially a, well, brief summary of the case. For now, you will write the following:

Event: Write / depict the event in as unbiased a tone as possible that has caused you to develop this case.
Issue: Write, in the form of a question, the issue behind your case. (Ex: "Should spawn camping be allowed?")
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Case: From here on out, the writing is yours to customize. Write whatever you need to get your point across. Doesn't need to be a big block of a paragraph. In fact, it'd probably be better if you split it into multiple paragraphs (if it need be that long).

[Slicmi]

Justices: Justices are those players who judge both Civil and Conceptual Suit cases. The current assembly:
Panthers17nfl - Justice
Rokkrwolf312 - Justice
s292r - Justice
Twisted_100 - Justice
Cogohst - Justice
Intelli - Chief Justice & Defendant of MineRealm in any case

I think we should have a jury of random players. They would be put in a list and picked 5 at a time for a case. If they can't make it someone takes their place and they go next time. After skipping more then twice you get fined/can't do a suit and get pulled from the list.

The real problem with having an unbiased jury is global chat. Lets say I hear toby24 saying something I think is stupid, then if he is being sued, I will be biased. In the real world juries work because you probably don't know the person being sued/prosecuted. If you do, then you are out of the jury. In minerealm there is no way to tell because almost all conversations are broadcasted to every player on the server.
Another reason they won't work is griefers. If we took random new players, there is a very likely chance that some of them won't care at all and just want to have fun and screw up the case; after all, Minecraft is a videogame, and most new players will not take it seriously at all.

[panthers17nfl]

As you may have figured from my "Minecraft Political Views", I would rather have all/most of the power rest in the Staff, as general public can't be trusted to make any decisions correctly.

[cerevox]

Right now the only big issue i have with this is that if someone has a big improvement to suggest about the rules, when they do suggest it they have to phrase it as themselves vs minerealm. Seems like this is a bit of an odd way to go about making an improvement suggestion.

[panthers17nfl]

Right now the only big issue i have with this is that if someone has a big improvement to suggest about the rules, when they do suggest it they have to phrase it as themselves vs minerealm. Seems like this is a bit of an odd way to go about making an improvement suggestion.

Good point. If it's just standard suggestions for improvements or whatever, that can be placed in the book of rules. If it is something bigger, more controversial, open to debate, etc., that is when a conceptual suit would probably be best.

[panthers17nfl]

Just a quick addition that I'm posting in a separate comment to drag some readers back here: Justices can serve as Prosecutors or Defendants, but relinquish their original role for the duration of the case.