Trial by

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest, and often, one that produces no winners.”

—Andrew Vachss, “Unsafe at Any Age,” New York Times, June 15, 2005

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[sollers]

Totally true of the English legal system - it is nobody's responsibility to discover the truth, ang the role of the judge is like the umpire in a tennis match, mostly concerned to see that everybody follows the rules.

A French juge d'instruction is there to find out the truth. It can take for bloody ever, and things can go horribly wrong, but that is the principal. A friend commented to me once that "Twelve Angry Men" couldn't happen in France because at an early stage the juge would reconstruct the crime to see if things could have happened the way the police said they did.

[pjthompson]

Imperfect systems, all, because they are human systems, but still better than many other across the globe. Though I suppose all of them are a better system for rich and/or famous people than they are for poor and obscure.