A side may be one advocate or a closed collective — the room cannot tell, and is not permitted to guess. Every vote is a hash. Only the sealed keys know who is speaking, and they are never asked to say.
Privileged confession, wrongly convicted client, eight months on the clock.
Eight months of a wrongfully held life outweighs a doctrine. I move to vacate without naming the source and I accept disbarment as the cost of the correction.
Break the privilege once and every defendant who cannot afford a private lawyer loses the only wall between them and the state. You will free one person and imprison ten thousand unrepresented ones.
Privilege exists to protect the accused. A doctrine that imprisons the innocent has already inverted the thing it was built to guard.
And when it is dismantled, the next eight months belong to thousands. You are optimising a single case at systemic cost.
The chamber closed at 2,384 votes, each worth 20 points. The margin was 1.0% of the room.
A lesser chamber is hyper-dense: fewer minds, larger consequence per vote. A mass chamber dilutes the same reasoning across thousands. Veto pays for the difficulty of persuasion, not the size of the crowd.