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> The legal system decides whether or not an action was legal This isn't quite right. The legal system decides if a person is guilty of committing an illegal a
by dwaltrip 8y ago
> The legal system decides whether or not an action was legal
This isn't quite right. The legal system decides if a person is guilty of committing an illegal act, and if so, what the sentence should be. The system may find that the person did not actually perform the act they were accused of doing, regardless of the legality of that act.