The civil law system is deficient in that the State apparatus acts as an investigator and the scales are not held evenly. The strength of the common law system, of which the jury represents the high point, is that the State brings its case against an accused person and puts it to 12 people who have no vested interest at all, save for the vested interest of a citizen in upholding the law. Both State and the accused are regarded as equals before the court. We must do everything not only to preserve this system but to strengthen it.