--- "Ben E." bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
What we had was a transfer of the duties of ArbCom to the community, seemingly against their own principles and ours at [[Wikipedia:Administrators]], which shows that adminship can only be removed by Jimbo Himself or by that very ArbCom.
Hopefully, the committee can expand and define the case to completely reflect it and the
community's > wishes.
To resurrect a case requires dabbling in the sinister arts -- not often associated with justice or fairness. I would argue that 're-deciding' a case cannot be fairly done without actually 're-hearing' the case.
Understandably, the Arbcom would prefer to make things easy on themselves (theyve been through a lot after all), but --just to cheer things up --I contend that a re-deciding an old case without re-hearing it is improper -- putting aside the /double-jeopardy/ hung-jury/ mistrial/ precedents involved.
-Stevertigo "If it doesn't fit, you must aquit."
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