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I'm all for going back to the code of Hammurabi, where if you brought a claim or accusation against someone in a court and could not prove your claim, you were put to death. Your lawyers joined you in that fate.
It would clean up a lot of the bullshit lawsuits that clog the court systems and it would limit these false accusations that people know will ruin a person's reputation because the news media jump all over any sex-related story like flies on shit.
I would also love to see it required that a media outlet devote as much space / airtime reporting the innocence of a suspect who is cleared as the do reporting on the alleged crime and trial. It's a concept they allow for politicians all the time (required by law, I believe) called "Equal time". The media would be a lot less aggressive reporting shit that is not proven if they knew they'd be forced to run a 1 minutes taped statement every 15 minutes for a month or print a full page statement for a week saying that none of the stuff the reported about the suspect ended up being true.
And I love how the simple word "alleged" is supposed to exonerate them from this responsibility. You never really process that Scott Peterson allegedly killed his wife and their unborn son. Your mind processes that he did it. You read that and your mind says "Scott Peterson killed his wife and their unborn son. "Alleged" is like tissue paper armor. It's there, but it doesn't really do anything.
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