coppro wrote: > A very broken system. As the criminal rules are written, you don't even > need to actually believe you were in the right, it just needs to be > reasonable for you to have done so. I completely support criminal reform > (N.B. my reform proposal would not have repaired this error) as the > criminal system is broken in several regards.
How is this broken, and what else is broken? If you add actual belief as a criterion, then the judge must ask or risk inappropriateness. The current system is comparable to Wikipedia's 'assume good faith' policy, and (like that policy) is qualified by 'unless there's a specific reason not to' (e.g. if the same officer frequently makes the same type of error).
