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Developed over the course of hundreds of years, the Anglo–American legal system contains several key provisions that, when used properly, guard against wrongful criminal convictions. These protections are critical: Not only do they defend Americans from false accusations and Kafka-esque legal proceedings, but they also demand that police and prosecutors proceed with discipline and care, proving every element of an accusation beyond a reasonable doubt—no matter the identity of the defendant.

The Missouri Court of Appeals of Southern District recently said a Neosho man should get a new trial in a resisting-arrest case.

Everyone in America knows that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” It is drummed into students from their first civics class in elementary school, so much so that it is a part of our cultural heritage. The phrase captures an important concept about culpability.

The law has now gone far from that model of liability for an actand, in effect, begun to impose criminal liability for the acts ofanother based upon failures of supervision that are far differentfrom the common law's historical understanding.

Typically, we in the media pride ourselves as members of the forth estate of the realm and this we do not hold lightly. A recent book on media practice