'The differences are very deep. And they don't like our system just like we don't like theirs.'
After two American teenagers were jailed in Rome, Italy, last week in connection with the stabbing and killing of a 35-year-old police officer, renewed attention is being given to the stark differences between the U.S. judicial system and the Italian one.
"The judge is involved in the investigation in Italy, and that doesn't happen in the U.S. If that took place in the U.S. every judge would be recused from a felony murder case because of a conflict of interest," Brian Claypool, an American criminal defense attorney, told."In Italy they are intimately involved in the fact finding and that clearly blurs their vision before they go to trial.""In Italy, in a high-profile case of someone from the U.S.
Like Knox, the two young men are expected to face a lengthy court battle and a potential life sentence.
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