Timeline for Synonymous phrase/idiom for "kangaroo court" that communicates a predetermined verdict
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 18:10 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | … further When you cannot think of an example where the person on trial won, what examples can you think of? Can you Post four or five, say? | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @NuclearHoagie This is prolly more than verging on opinion and I still suggest, the outcome is not the point. A 'kangaroo court' lacks real authority, and that's all. Neither the procedure it follows nor any conclusion it reaches matter. A kangaroo court could set itself up and then follow precisely the correct procedure that a duly-consituted court should, and reach exactly the same conclusion. What made it a kangaroo court would be neither the conclusion nor the procedure, but simple the lack of legal constitution. For a half-way example, consider Judge Roy Bean. More… | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 13:10 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @RobbieGoodwin I cannot think of a single example of a "kangaroo court" where the person on trial won. I guess the conclusion need not be explicitly written out ahead of time, but it's almost part of the definition - if the person on trial wins, they were almost certainly not tried in a kangaroo court. | |
| Aug 16, 2023 at 22:02 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @Nuclear Hoagie A kangaroo court might ignore judicial standards, and I don't see that as part of its definition. I stand to be corrected, and I think a kangaroo court might follow all judicial standards, apart from its own existence being wholly un-sanctioned. That would depend on the nature of the members, not the status of the court. Your own Post leaves plenty of room for my every word to be true: 'Those standards are ignored … the defendant will lose.' The defendant losing might well be the outcome but even in your kangaroo court no, the conclusion is not foregone. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 16:13 | comment | added | HippoSawrUs | in context, a dog and pony show | |
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| Aug 10, 2023 at 21:11 | comment | added | jsw29 | It is puzzling how this question could have been closed on the ground that 'questions on choosing an ideal word or phrase must include information on how it will be used in order to be answered', given that it begins with an example of a sentence in which the OP would like to use the term sought. | |
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| Aug 9, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @RobbieGoodwin A kangaroo court ignores judicial standards. Those standards are ignored by those in power, i.e., the court itself. No kangaroo court ignores judicial standards in order to give itself less power, they only exist to trample the rights of the accused. I suppose a kangaroo court's verdict need not be explicitly pre-determined, but the whole point is that it is set up in a way to be disadvantageous for the person being tried It's very easy to infer what the outcome is going to be in a kangaroo court - the defendant will lose. | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 5:15 | answer | added | KRyan | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Aug 9, 2023 at 3:05 | comment | added | Daniel Asimov | You mean a "foregone" conclusion. (The word "forgone" has a different meaning.) | |
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| Aug 8, 2023 at 22:00 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | For a similar tone, you could borrow from Alice In Wonderland, "a Through-the-Looking-Glass trial" or "a Red Queen courtroom." Even just PC says it all. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 21:26 | comment | added | TimR | Given the register of your sentences, you should write "we students assumed...". | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 20:48 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Could you rephrase most of that? Whether it's a 'kangaropo court' has nothing to do with whether the verdict is predetermined. For the same reason, 'bogus court' is at best unclear. MarcInManhattan's 'show trial' is prolly as close as you will get… | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 20:30 | answer | added | MarcInManhattan | timeline score: 20 | |
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| Aug 8, 2023 at 19:54 | history | asked | Nick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |