Daryl wrote:We are the product of our environment. So many comments do seem to reflect the current US legal system.
Australian law is similar, in many ways but quite different in others. We search out any possible political slant to judge appointments, and vigourously sanitise them.
In French law the presumption of innocence is lacking. Fifty years ago our system would have dismissed Homor's case, now it possibly would have swung the other way.
Wikipedia in Presumption of innocence wrote:In France, article 9 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, which has force as constitutional law, begins: "Any man being presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty ..." The Code of Criminal Procedure states in its preliminary article that "any person suspected or prosecuted is presumed innocent for as long as their guilt has not been established" and the jurors' oath repeats this assertion (article 304; note that only the most serious crimes are tried by jury in France). A popular misconception is that, under French law, the accused is presumed guilty until proven innocent.
To what exactly are you pointing, when you say "Fifty years ago our system would have dismissed Honor's case, now it possibly would have swung the other way"? Do you mean the attempted rape, where no accusation was made until years later? Or are you talking about the Houseman slap?
