accusatorial system
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Definitions from Case Law
From 365 U.S. 534 - Rogers v. Richmond · 1961Most cited · 2,510 citing opinions
ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system—a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth