Discuss the “Star Chamber” and its influence on the criminal Justice System.?

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The Star Chamber is just a rehash of the old "Citizens Committees" in the frontier towns and territories. These "Citizens Committees were formed because the federal government wouldn't provide sufficient numbers of judges and marshalls to bring law to these frontier towns like Deadwood and Dodge. The committees were just another name for lynch mob actually. Even if they were right.
So it wasn't the star chamber influencing the criminal justice system, it was the other way around. The old lawless west being updated to current times and citizens taking the law into their own hands when it was perceived that the legal system had failed.

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What's to discuss? It was a movie. A story. One that was FULL of holes that you could steer an ocean liner through. It was based on the popular myth that the law is a nice thing, but ultimately helpless, and that major offenders could skip out of charges on the slightest loopholes and technicalities.

Such technicalities have always been rare, and on the occasions that they've happened, it's usually been the result of the prosecution trying to "help" the evidence along to make their case.

"The Star Chamber" has had about as much influence on the criminal justice system as "Star Wars' has had upon the NASA space program.

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One of the original functions of the court of Star Chamber was as a court of criminal equity, and provided a way to pursue justice against those who had been acquitted of crimes in the strict common law system. The Star Chamber also prosecuted crimes of treason, perjury and sedition, and developed the jurisprudence in this area.

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