| >It can be 'interpreted' by the judge, who takes on the role of the feudal lord of the earlier times The judge is separate from the prosecution (who are referred to in court as "the state" or "the government"). This is called "judicial independence". >The persecution or the defendant can negotiate any outcome... ...provided that outcome is preferable to having the jury decide. >Which obligates the need for lying No, that's perjury if done under oath. Or, in the case of prosecutorial misconduct, grounds for a mistrial. >The ENTIRE rest of the world uses the civil law system No, it does not. >which descended in turn from the French Revolutionary principles. No, it's even older than that. >It cannot be 'interpreted' You have never been sued in France, and you have never seen the inside of a US courtroom except on TV. >Which is also the reason why the lawyers get upper middle class salaries and income in entire rest of the world but make obscene, irrational income in the US The average US lawyer makes less money than the average web developer in the Bay Area. >In Europe, judges and lawyers and prosecutors function more like clerks - the law is clear and solid. Europe, equipped with legal technology far in advance of what the Anglophone world must deal with, has eliminated ambiguity in language to such an extent that the legal profession there is now a form of bookkeeping. Soon, the Sorbonne law faculty will be replaced by Droite-GPT (which will still take the month of August off, because reasons...) >In the rest of the world that does not happen - there is no way to negotiate down any sentence that may befall on your corporation, but most importantly, you, the perpetrator... The Code Napoleon has eliminated corporate malfeasance in the non-english-speaking world. Quite remarkable. |