In many criminal cases, the common-law requirement that a defendant must have a mens rea (ie, he must or should know that he is doing wrong) has been weakened or erased.

在许多刑事案件中，惯例法所要求的被告人应该有犯罪动机(如，他必须或者应该知道自己现在所做的事是不正确的)的规定已经在逐步地弱化或移除。

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The trial or petit jury of 12 persons is used in trials of common law, both criminal and civil, except where the right to a jury trial is waived by consent of all parties at law.

对12人的审判或小陪审团是在共同使用的法律，刑事和民事审判，除非对陪审团审判的权利在法律上是由各方同意豁免。

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In most countries, there are some common elements of justice among national criminal laws and judicial practices, which serve as important guidelines of international criminal law nowadays.

当今大多数国家国内刑法及司法实践中的正义要素，逐渐被接受成为国际刑法准则的一部分。

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At the summit later this month he will make concessions designed to lead to a common criminal law.

BBC: News | UK Politics | John Maples speech in full

The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.

ECONOMIST: American juries