What I do know, though, is that his death yesterday is emblematic of myriad problems with our system of criminal justice.
"We can continue to criticise individual members of staff for individual failings but this ignores the complexity of these issues and the way that our system of criminal justice affects the victims of sexual offences, " he said.
It says the Act effectively created "a shadow criminal justice system" devoid of a number of crucial safeguards present in the ordinary criminal justice system.
Beck's case thus provoked one of the most important reforms of the English criminal-justice system of the 20th century.
We are pleased that we are seeing government proposing a unification of the criminal justice system so that all of us can work together much more efficiently for the delivery of proper justice.
He's a terrorist, and I don't think he deserves the full range of protections of our criminal justice system embodied in the Constitution of the United States.
The efforts of Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, to enact sweeping reforms of the police and of the criminal-justice system have fallen foul of congressional opposition.
The mistaken release of the prisoner, who was serving a 60-year sentence in Indiana for murder, focused attention on an antiquated corner of the criminal justice system that still relies extensively on paper documents instead of computers in moving detainees around and keeping tabs on their court status.
It is a staple of our civilized criminal justice system that you cannot be convicted of committing a crime unless you knew what you were doing and realized that it was against the law.
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"The committee learned that women's experiences of the criminal justice system are different from men's and that some of these differences may stem from, or result in, discrimination or inequality, " she said.
The new Firearms Control Bill is a milestone in the criminal justice system of South Africa.
"Germany, in effect, has invited this court to create a new international legal obligation, one that would necessarily intrude deep into the domestic criminal justice system of any state, " Thessin said.
Further, an attempt to examine issues that relate to the criminal proceedings in Greece will seriously violate Ms Thanou's right to a fair trial and it would breach the European Convention on Human Rights and it would constitute an interference with an independent criminal procedure of a country's criminal justice system.
Even if there are any gains, these have to be balanced against the blow to justice and public faith in the criminal-justice system which denial of jury trials would represent.
Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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The proposed reforms of the penal code and criminal-justice system will have to overcome the entrenched attitudes of judges and lawyers, also well represented in Congress.
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It warns that children in care are at much greater risk of being drawn into the criminal justice system than those who are not and often come to the attention of the police for minor incidents that would never come to light if they occurred in family homes.
However, he said the proposed changes would "undermine the integrity of the criminal justice system".
It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.
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Now, one in three young black men is under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system.
Victims of crime should be placed at the heart of the criminal justice system, a police candidate has said.
John Wadham, director of civil rights organisation Liberty, described the law as "a fundamental part of our criminal justice system".
In 2011, about seven million people were under the supervision of the criminal justice system in the United States.
In Baltimore and Chicago, the majority of young black men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said his administration should be responsible for policing and, eventually, the rest of the criminal justice system.
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It should use this as an opportunity to explore the failings of our criminal justice system and how it can be improved.
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Plea bargaining is woven into the fabric of our criminal justice system.
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"It was an age of different social attitudes and the workings of the criminal justice system at the time would have reflected this, " it said.
In what is thought to be the first role of its kind, Angela Sarkis will lead an inquiry into victims' experience of the criminal justice system.
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