Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?
American law outlines a series of protections for those accused of crimes but not yet convicted. (Like the 4th-6th amendments)
Does your country have any unique/novel protections of the rights of potentially innocent people accused but yet to be convicted?
If not are there any protections you think should be in place?
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In dubio pro reo. Innocent until proven guilty. I thought that was in the universal declaration of human rights or something. Stunned to learn that any country that calls itself democratic could do otherwise.
Or, from another perspective: many people in my country take so much for granted, not knowing how lucky they are.