On 12/5/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
People also falsely confess to crimes; there have been many famous cases of
this which have actually been later overturned (and one must assume even
more cases which have not been overturned). If we start trying to second
guess legal systems, then all we'll be left with is original research to
determine if someone is a criminal.
Jay.
The problems is that you're trying to apply a fundamentally
20th-century view of legal systems across the board. Only recently
have the majority of criminals begun to appear before courts; in
earlier periods, it was quite common for them to simply be killed, or
to kill themselves.
What about cases like [[Marcus Junius Brutus]]? There is little, if
any, doubt about his role in Ceasar's death; should we then refrain
from adding him to the Assassins category merely because he was never
convicted in a court?
Kirill Lokshin