You forgot the episode of TNG where they put the lady devil on trial
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That was not a Federation world, nor Federation court.
You are correct. I guess I was just thinking of any ole courtroom star trek trial episode.
I'd imagine even just the Prime Directive in book form (with all its subclauses) would already look something like this .
They would've split the Prime Directive into multiple volumes.
It would be like a Encyclopedia.
Law libraries have many sets of books that are many volumes. Constitutional law, statute law, laws of individual states and localities, treaty law, regulatory law, and all of them have case law and commentaries connected with them. Library users need to establish not only what the law is now, but what it was at a specific time in the past. All can have sets into dozens or hundreds of volumes. There are commercial computerized services available even now that save a lot of space and retrieving the relevent volume and staff to reshelve them, but those services are so expensive not every library can afford them. Remember Cogley's office in TOS "Court Martial" with stacks of books all over every flat surface in no apparent order? I'm not sure how he could work like that guessing which stack of books might have the volume he needs at any given time. (And he didn't base Kirk's defense on the law anyway....)
The same reason that people who arrested today are held in custody pending arraignment hearings, extradition hearings, etc. The fact that you are a prisoner does not mean that any court proceeding you are involved in is a trial.
Well, thing is, where I live, they aren't. That is, they are arrested, processed, and then released until their court date and then only if they're found guilty are they held in custody. It's my understanding the same is the case in the US, and given everything we see in Star Trek is just copied from how things are in the US, well...
There's also a Lower Decks episode about a trial (even if we don't get to see it). It's season 3's Grounded and what I find funny about it it's that apparently they still use courtroom sketch artists in the future.
No, that is not the case in the United States. A person is arrested and processed, then they are held in custody until their arraignment hearing, which typically in most states takes place in 1-3 days after their arrest. It is at that point that they enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. Assuming they plead not guilty, the judge then decides if they are eligible for bail and, if so, at what amount. In some cases, bail will be denied and they remain in custody until the trial. In other cases, bail will be assigned, but they are only released if they can successfully post the bail.
So, where you live a person arrested for multiple murders is processed and released until trial?
What mechanisms are in place to ensure the arrested accused individual returns to stand trial?
While I have no knowledge of multiple murders, there have been incidents of serious offenders being released and then re-offending. The explanation has always been "we simply can't afford to hold them."
Honor system, basically. That is you are expected to show up for trial because it's required. And yes, that has been taken advantage of. Again, the budget gets blamed.
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