[BITList] manslaughter trial

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Colin,
I been having a bit of a muse on our discussion, In the British system 
if one hires a taxi and it is involved in a accident then the driver is 
held accountable where as in places like Taiwan if the taxi is involved 
in a accident then the passenger is held responsible  on the grounds 
that if he had not hired the taxi then it would have not been in the 
place where the accident happened. Don't know if this is another of the 
differences between British law and Napoleonic law. So does American 
law  in the South lean towards Continental law? which would explain the 
present court case
frank