American law has more built-in protections to help the accused, and seeing a justice system without those things in place makes us blink and do a double-take.
I've been finding it fascinating reading US takes on the Knox case, because stuff being said about the Italian justice system is what I would think about the US. But that is partly because I think that outsiders always see (that is, their media shows) the things about a system that will shock them, sometimes because they are simply different, other times because they go against ethical codes - when US stories show up in the UK they are often ones where the British system is completely different and are framed in "Look how hideously inhumane and corrupt the US legal system is".
Personally, I'd rather take my chances in Italy - at least the corrupt judge won't get me executed. But now I am becoming political :-)
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Date: 2010-01-06 08:52 pm (UTC)I've been finding it fascinating reading US takes on the Knox case, because stuff being said about the Italian justice system is what I would think about the US. But that is partly because I think that outsiders always see (that is, their media shows) the things about a system that will shock them, sometimes because they are simply different, other times because they go against ethical codes - when US stories show up in the UK they are often ones where the British system is completely different and are framed in "Look how hideously inhumane and corrupt the US legal system is".
Personally, I'd rather take my chances in Italy - at least the corrupt judge won't get me executed. But now I am becoming political :-)