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derer. Much of what's wrong, he says, is rooted in the courts' adversarial nature, which necessitates "a bristling array of constitutional safeguards and procedural rules" to protect the accused. Maechling argues for radical reform: taking a leaf from the so-called inquisitorial criminal- justice process used everywhere in Europe except Great Britain and Ireland.
The European approach relies on "ob- jective methods of inquiry rather than . . . pit-bull confrontations," s...