What is common law? What impact does common law have on contemporary American criminal justice?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include a definition of the common law and an explanation of how it is the basis of much modern criminal law in the U.S. Answers should also explain that, in most states, common law has been largely supplanted by statutory law but that common law principles are still used to interpret legal issues in many states.
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