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[Tasty]

Is it true Japan doesn't have plea bargains or witness protection?

Just curious.

I'm not planning any heinous crimes or anything.

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Promise.

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[Phoenix Dark]

sounds like young Andrex has discovered pirate bay

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dunno about that stuff, but japan's legal system is really different from western ones.  it's very much tilted against the defendant rather than for them.

Sounds pretty lame but US legal system can be pretty screwey too. Everything sucks.

sounds like young Andrex has discovered pirate bay

TPB is so 2007.

[Rufus]

Phoenix Wright and the Japanese legal system:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_253/7530-Phoenix-Wrights-Objection

Basically, you want nothing to do with it, ever.

[nudemacusers]

dunno about that stuff, but japan's legal system is really different from western ones.  it's very much tilted against the defendant rather than for them.

You live over there, right? Does the media reflect that kind of perspective when reporting criminal cases and so on? 

[Tasty]

Phoenix Wright and the Japanese legal system:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_253/7530-Phoenix-Wrights-Objection

Basically, you want nothing to do with it, ever.

Do they just not arrest people unless they have ironclad evidence or does the situation really just suck that much?

[Rufus]

Do they just not arrest people unless they have ironclad evidence or does the situation really just suck that much?

Possibly.

J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard Law School and Eric B. Rasmusen of Indiana University examine if the accusation is in fact warranted. In their paper ("Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?") they examined two possibilities. One is that judges who come under the control of central bureaucracy are pressured to pass a guilty verdict, ensuring high conviction. Another possibility is that, given that the non-jury system under inquisition system has predictable ruling on guilt, Japan's understaffed prosecutors working on low budgets only bring the most obviously guilty defendants to trial, and do not file indictments in cases which have even minute chance of failure.[7][...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_legal_system#Conviction_rate

[Diunx]

Is it true that a Japanese gentleman can legally kill someone who sexually abused his underage daughter?

[pilonv1]

The J-Police's method of choice is to haul in whoever they think did it, coerce them into signing a confession (whether or not they understand it is beside the point), and call it a day.  So yeah, it does suck that much.  Do not ever do anything to get the attention of the law here.

Sounds like most asian countries.

[DCharlieJP]

I've seen a somewhat proud attitude to the 99.whatever% conviction rate for "foreign criminals" which basically means if you are up on trial for something, whether you did it or not, you are going down for it.

Of course, if you happen to - ooo i dunno - murder someone and bury their body with a shit load of evidence that you didit , after you've already murdered several japanese people in the same way which you -were- fingered for then you -might- get away with "abandoning a corpse" (in a hole that you dug after you cut up the body) if you do it to a foreign lady :/ (can't remember the victims name...)


please understand - this is the nation that parks mandatory pish test vans outside night clubs to tackle the drugs problem then basically lifts foreigners only :/

[chronovore]

Lindsay Hawker; she was raped and murdered while he raped her, because he was afraid she'd scream. The Japanese murderer is serving a life sentence now, after confessing. I'm going to guess it was a real confession, in this case.

What Oscar and DCharlie said: Foreigners doing crimes will get on the news errytime, even if it's not yet proven. Sometimes I wonder if the guys who rob convenience stores at knife-point here fake a Chinese accent just to throw off the Keystone Kops.

Is it true that a Japanese gentleman can legally kill someone who sexually abused his underage daughter?

You asked this in the other Japan thread. What is it with you and this topic? Are you fronting for Fistful? It's still not true.

...Unless the abuser is a foreigner.