From: "Bob W" > Juries, as well as the prosecution and defense, may suggest > > sentences > >> > after conviction, but the Judge decides the actual sentence. >> > The system >> > is based on UK Common Law. >> > > There is no UK Common Law, and never has been. There is English law > and Scottish law in the UK, but no UK law. > > The jury has nothing to do with sentencing in English Law, and to the > best of my knowledge it never has had - that's the judge's job. US law is based on English law as it existed in the mid-18th century, or in the way the colonials "thought" it existed at that time.
With some modifications to codify certain things the founders of a newly independent country decided hadn't worked quite right under English colonial law ... mainly having to do with restricting the government's ability to interfere with the "rights" of citizens. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
