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pdw | 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigating_judge_(France)

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jimnotgym|4 months ago

To save people opening the link...in France it would be a judge not a prosecutor. France has an Inquisitorial rather than the Adversarial legal system the UK and US have. Put simply, a judge doesn't merely decide between the two cases presented to them, they try and establish the facts

Edit: I said 'UK' where I should have said 'England and Wales'. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own legal systems, although I believe both have Adversarial systems they are different in some ways. The US system could, however, be seen as a continuation of the English system.

Fade_Dance|4 months ago

This is why HN is great. An immediate pivot to the technicalities and semantics of the French judicial system, off of a pithy comment.

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