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Charlie · 03-04-2003, 03:04 PM

I must admit I thought Hierophants comment rather unjust. If the USA isn't advanced (depending upon what we term advanced of course) then who is? Not sure that he came across as he meant to...dunno.

Can someone explain how US law works? I know that could take forever but some kind of brief, simplistic overview would help. Your country is so massive and it seems you have so many differing policies/laws from state to state even though you are a United country. I can't quite grasp that.

My own country (Great Britain as a whole...ugh, I said it) is minute in comparison. Although we have slight differences in terminology, like sherrifs in Scotland, the LAW I think and it's punishments are pretty much the same.

Forgetting the racial undertones regarding this case. How can it be that not one single LAW PERSON saw fit to see the law done? Is their no governing body?
Here we have the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) that has to look at EVERY case and decides whether it merits court time once the prosecutors..... ie the police.... have submitted their evidence. There is no way in one million, billion years this case would have made the courts, infact I'd swear blind Tom Coleman would have been nicked and screwed.

I'm sure that being so vast complicates things, but surely if you're the United States you must unite into a single law.

I'm not after a law debate now [img]smile.gif[/img] But with your being so big and advanced it seems that there are some places left to interpret the law for themselves. Lucky (or maybe not if you're the one in prison) there wasn't a length of rope and a big old tree outside the courthouse.

I'm not knocking the USA. But, humbly and politely put, it does seem that some areas of law, or probably more, the lawful enforcement of the law, are a little backward for such an advanced country in the year 2003.

EDIT...Typo's/grammar.

[ 03-04-2003, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Charlie ]

03-04-2003, 03:04 PM	#31
Charlie Lord Ao Join Date: March 3, 2001 Location: London, England Age: 31 Posts: 2,023	I must admit I thought Hierophants comment rather unjust. If the USA isn't advanced (depending upon what we term advanced of course) then who is? Not sure that he came across as he meant to...dunno. Can someone explain how US law works? I know that could take forever but some kind of brief, simplistic overview would help. Your country is so massive and it seems you have so many differing policies/laws from state to state even though you are a United country. I can't quite grasp that. My own country (Great Britain as a whole...ugh, I said it) is minute in comparison. Although we have slight differences in terminology, like sherrifs in Scotland, the LAW I think and it's punishments are pretty much the same. Forgetting the racial undertones regarding this case. How can it be that not one single LAW PERSON saw fit to see the law done? Is their no governing body? Here we have the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) that has to look at EVERY case and decides whether it merits court time once the prosecutors..... ie the police.... have submitted their evidence. There is no way in one million, billion years this case would have made the courts, infact I'd swear blind Tom Coleman would have been nicked and screwed. I'm sure that being so vast complicates things, but surely if you're the United States you must unite into a single law. I'm not after a law debate now [img]smile.gif[/img] But with your being so big and advanced it seems that there are some places left to interpret the law for themselves. Lucky (or maybe not if you're the one in prison) there wasn't a length of rope and a big old tree outside the courthouse. I'm not knocking the USA. But, humbly and politely put, it does seem that some areas of law, or probably more, the lawful enforcement of the law, are a little backward for such an advanced country in the year 2003. EDIT...Typo's/grammar. [ 03-04-2003, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Charlie ]