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Most legal system have a guilty or innocent verdict. However, the Scottish legal system also has a 3rd verdict of "not proven". Which I personally feel is be
by Zenst 5y ago
Most legal system have a guilty or innocent verdict. However, the Scottish legal system also has a 3rd verdict of "not proven". Which I personally feel is better as with most binary decision options, if they are not guilty then they are proven innocent, even if there is that grey area of doubt that would yield a "not proven" verdict, as appears to be the case here.
Hopefully, somebody with more legal knowledge will step in and enlighten a bit more.
- Beltalowda 5y agoAs I understand it, "not proven" is effectively just the same as "innocent". See e.g.: http://dukeundergraduatelawmagazine.org/2018/12/06/scotlands-three-verdict-system-a-look-into-not-proven/ http://dukeundergraduatelawmagazine.org/2018/12/06/scotlands... I have the impression it's mostly there to protect against wrongful convictions, which seems very different from the "it doesnt matter what actually happened, but what lawyers can prove" what the comment I replied to said. The EU ruling here isn't a criminal trail with a jury system anyway, so quite different in any case.