Plea bargains in the American court.

[StrictMasterD]

Thhou our Judical System in the United States does work, it is probably more screwed up then anywhere on Earth

[IAN 2411]

Thhou our Judical System in the United States does work, it is probably more screwed up then anywhere on Earth

You haven't been to the UK lately then, an experience you should savour, you couldn't make some of it up.

[Thorne]

You haven't been to the UK lately then, an experience you should savour, you couldn't make some of it up.

I imagine the same could be said of just about any country's legal system, as those who make the law twist it into unrecognizable contortions in order to make sure that whatever bizarre activities they are involved in won't be considered illegal. Or at worst, punishable by a slap on the wrist.

[js207]

Thhou our Judical System in the United States does work, it is probably more screwed up then anywhere on Earth

Really? More so than the ones where rape isn't a crime, or where it's the victim they punish? More so than the one that just scrapped the 800-year old double jeopardy protection? One where you weren't allowed access to a lawyer while being questioned by the police? Israel, India, Singapore, South Africa and parts of Switzerland, where there are no juries?

I'm guessing none of those would count as less screwed up - so where is "anywhere on Earth" that does?

[IAN 2411]

Really? More so than the ones where rape isn't a crime, or where it's the victim they punish? More so than the one that just scrapped the 800-year old double jeopardy protection? One where you weren't allowed access to a lawyer while being questioned by the police? Israel, India, Singapore, South Africa and parts of Switzerland, where there are no juries?

I'm guessing none of those would count as less screwed up - so where is "anywhere on Earth" that does?

I take it that you mean the UK when you say the Double jeopardy protection..well there is the fact that as tecnoledgy advances more and more people are being found out to be the real killers..that law is only good for the guilty. If a killer of three people has got away with murder by being found not guilty, and new tech proves he really was the killer ...he should be tried again on further charges...if it were your family members with the murdered we would not be having this conversation.

Be well Ian