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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
283 - A JUDGE RELYING ON THE OPINION OF A FELLOW-JUDGE
Exodus 23:2 -- “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.”
By this prohibition, a judge is forbidden to rely on the opinion of a fellow-judge in convicting the guilty or acquitting the innocent, without himself examining the matter in the light of his own investigation and deductions from the principles of the law.