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Originally Posted by RawAlex
many people try to push the US constitutional law theory as the best system. Yet the US has a system where criminals often get off on minor technicalities, where convicted felons can often go back to court any number of times contesting minor or procedural errors that might of occurred, or even arguing that their judge might not have phrased the directions to the jury correctly.
China's legal system sucks, but it is too the point and certainly not tilted in favor of the criminals.
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Actually, I prefer the Dutch system over the US system. I don't trust juries to be entirely fair.
As for the Chinese system... it's tilted in favour of the government. That is to say, those legally opposing actions of the government have next to no chance of winning, while those the government wants convicted will get convicted.
Also, remember that the legal system should make sure people are actually guilty. This very fact tilts a good legal system in favour of criminals - if there is even a small chance that they aren't guilty, they should go free. Otherwise, innocent people will get convicted.