¶ … Queen v. Dudley, a group of sailors were hired to captain a yacht from Essex, England to Sydney, Australia. Dudley was the captain, and Stephens, Brooks, and Parker were his mates and seamen. When The Mignonette capsized, the four men climbed aboard the lifeboat dinghy but had no water or supplies. Several weeks into the ordeal, Captain Dudley suggested that one of the men be sacrificed as a food source for the others so that at least three of them might remain alive rather than having them all die. Dudley first suggested they draw straws to see who would be chosen, but then decided that Parker, one of the seamen aboard, showed signs of sickness and would make an ideal candidate for sacrifice. Dudley killed Parker and the three other men ate Parker's body until they were rescued several days later. When the men returned home to England, they were treated like heroes and criminals at the same time. The Crown pressed charges of murder. Parker's eldest brother openly shook hands with Dudley to show signs of support, and the jury seemed set to yield a verdict of not guilty. That was when the Crown intervened by invoking arcane rules of the court. The Queen v. Dudley case of 1884 shows how prosecutorial and judicial discretion can be abused. In this case, "by way of a highly unorthodox procedure," a trial by jury was replaced by trial by tribunal, in which case five (obviously biased) judges meted out a decision contrary to that which the jury trial would have provided the defense. Lord Chief Justice Lord Coleridge used the Dudley case as his own political platform and moral pulpit, to espouse his views on whether killing Parker was a matter of self-preservation or not. In the interests of promoting his own personal moral beliefs, Lord Chief Justice Lord Coleridge overstepped the boundaries of the law in a democratic system. It would have been interesting to know whether or not Coleridge would have overtaken the case...
Would Coleridge still have wanted his day in the limelight? Interestingly, the case closed with the defense being pardoned. Coleridge was less interested in preserving the integrity of the system than he was in using the system to promote his own sense of moral righteousness.
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