Yes, why ask? Why not? Let's take capital offenses.
Mike Bloomberg, running for the New York city mayoralty, said he opposed the imposition of the death penalty because a judge or jury can err, and DNA tests have shown such errors. (The mayor is not opposed to life sentences.)
Take Plato's Apology. The majority of the jury increased in the second (sentencing) vote because Socrates appeared insolent.
But the evidence (in my example, in the first part of the trial of Socrates) is Strat's issue. At best, the evidence supporting the charges, as reported by Xenophon and also by Plato -- Plato likely to have witnessed the trial -- is problematic.
Given the nature of the charges, subjective judgements by jurymen led to Socrates' conviction and punishment.
But Socrates did influence, if not "corrupt" Alcibiades, Critias and others, although he was not paid for "teaching" them.
The charge that Socrates did not honor the gods of the Athenians -- a more complicated issue in view of what can be called Athens' constitutional requirements for provisioning sacred acts and festivals, dependent on office, wealth, clan. previous sacrifices and sponsorships, etc. -- Socrates addresses in The Apology.
I.F. Stone in the pre-publicity for his book, Trial of Socrates, quoted Freud -- perhaps on evidence? -- "We overlook what we do not wish to see."
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