{"id":195735,"date":"2008-06-17T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/mexico-revamps-justice-system\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:11:00","slug":"mexico-revamps-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/mexico-revamps-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Revamps Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/17\/AR2008061702334.html?hpid=topnews\">completely revamped its justice system<\/a>, the high points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The presumption of innocence (I guess they must have continued the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_Napoleon\">Code Napol\u00e9on<\/a> from their brief time as a French posession).<\/li>\n<li>Public trials.<\/li>\n<li>Allowing lawyers to argue orally before judges (it was all written briefs before).<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to the public defender system.<\/li>\n<li>Gives state and local police departments the power to investigate their own corruption, which had previously been an exclusively federal purview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, it looks like major improvements, though considering the starting point, this is not difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the civil libertarians who are concerned about the 80 days detention without charge though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico has completely revamped its justice system, the high points are: The presumption of innocence (I guess they must have continued the Code Napol\u00e9on from their brief time as a French posession). Public trials. Allowing lawyers to argue orally before judges (it was all written briefs before). Improvements to the public defender system. Gives state &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}