On Sat, 10 May 2008 08:39:29 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
>I don't think that you will find many people that agree that foreigners
>should be able to come here, break laws but escape punishment - simply
>by returning home to a country which doesn't have such laws.
But that is *exactly* how it works for almost everything. There is a
huge practical problem involved in having a trial of a person who has
not broken the law of the country he is being tried in.
It would require finding barristers and a judge who knows the law of
the country in question - what factors need to be proven, what
standard of proof, and what constitutes a valid defence.
Not to mention the method of trial itself, which may be significantly
different in the other country.
The alternative would be to extridite the accused back to the country
of the alleged crime to stand trial. For entirely pragmatic reasons
only *extremely* serious crimes are deemed to merit extradition, and
only then if the country the person is being sent to is deemed to have
a fair system of justice.
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Cynic
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