4 ms·
The core principle of the US system of government (and of the British system that precedes it) is that no single person should have absolute power in a criminal
by quanticle 11y ago
The core principle of the US system of government (and of the British system that precedes it) is that no single person should have absolute power in a criminal trial. Power should be subject to checks and balances, even if those checks and balances are cursory in 95% of cases.
Put another way, the US criminal justice system is the equivalent of a software development process where the vast majority of changes go in without code review.
- harryh 11y agoThat's wrong. The defendant and their lawyer are doing a code review.
- zhemao 11y agoThen like doing a code review in which the reviewer is underpaid and overworked and may not have access to the full code.
- warfangle 11y agoMost people arrested have to use a public defender. Public defenders have something like less than five minutes to even review the case file before going in front of the judge.