Haller Legal System

This movie portrays the law system as being unjust, and the fact that justice is served by the work of the Haller, the main character not the law system. This film also stresses the flaws of the law system, and all the flaws of the law system are due to current rules and laws. The flaws of the law system include allowing the judge to give a directed verdict, the death penalty, and plea deals. For some these may not seem like flaws but in the movie they are presented as flaws of the legal system, and these flaws are due to rules and laws that are placed in the law system.
Due to rules of the law system, judges are given the power to be able to give a directed verdict. This is when a judge feels that there is no need for a jury to give a verdict, and if this verdict is given by the judge it is “not guilty.” Even though part of a judges power is to do that, in this film it is shown as a flaw. In the film the judge gives a directed verdict, even though the defendant is actually guilty of the crime of attacking the prostitute. This is a flaw of the legal system, as many guilty people may get away with crime, when the judge uses this. It ignores the jury system, and the jury may be able to investigate …show more content…
Plea bargains is an agreement between the defense and the prosecution, which the defense pleads guilty in return for some concession from the prosecutor. This is shown as a flaw in the law system, in which many times the plea of guilt is actually false, and the defendant is actually innocent. This happened with the man that was accused of murder pleaded guilty so he would not be given the death penalty, even though he was actually innocent. This allowed for the real perp to get away with the crime since another person had done the crime. This shows a flaw of the legal system since the person who actually did the crime was able to commit another crime, since the case was