It was decided that “the trying court would be called the International Military Tribunal, and would consist of one primary and one alternate judge from each country. It was also agreed upon that the adversarial system would be used, which was Britain and the US 's system of preference (Linder, 2000). The adversarial system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties ' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a judge or jury, who attempt to determine the truth of the case (Adversary System, 2015). The way the Nazi officers were be charged, didn 't allow the defendants to use the defense of tu quoque and blame everything on their superior officers (Linder, 2000). The only thing that was different from the traditional adversary system was that the final decisions and sentences were made by a panel of judges instead of just one judge and jury (History Channel,
It was decided that “the trying court would be called the International Military Tribunal, and would consist of one primary and one alternate judge from each country. It was also agreed upon that the adversarial system would be used, which was Britain and the US 's system of preference (Linder, 2000). The adversarial system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties ' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a judge or jury, who attempt to determine the truth of the case (Adversary System, 2015). The way the Nazi officers were be charged, didn 't allow the defendants to use the defense of tu quoque and blame everything on their superior officers (Linder, 2000). The only thing that was different from the traditional adversary system was that the final decisions and sentences were made by a panel of judges instead of just one judge and jury (History Channel,