[bnegreve]

> In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will.

We trust judges when they decide to send people to prison for decades, so I don't see why we shouldn't trust them if they decide that this will is probably a mistake.

[madebylaw]

There wasn’t a will. The guy wrote his GFs name in some form in 1989 and probably never thought about it again.

[tossandthrow]

We don't trust judges. We trust the process they follow. A judge is not a God, why we have a hierarchy to redo judgments (lift a decision to a higher court).

Also, IMHO judging a person for something they did not do is amongst the worst things that can happen in a society. This is also why there is a principle of rather letting 10 guilty people go free rather than convicting a single innocent person.

(i am speaking from a Scandinavian juris system)

[amanaplanacanal]

Judges rely on evidence when making decisions. Is there Any evidence that it is a mistake?

[bnegreve]

I don't know. If the case is not discussed in court, we will never know. This is why we should not blindly follow a will out of respect of the dead person, because there may be evidence this is just a mistake.

[Brian_K_White]

Yes. The time and other circumstances as described by the article.

That signature is only one piece of evidence, and it doesn't exist in a vacuum, it has a context.