[slowhandluke]

Modern continental law is in such relationship to the common law as kilograms and meters are to pounds and yards.

You need to come up with a new analogy, this one is silly.

Kilograms and meters are exactly convertable to and from pounds and yards. There is no usable difference. Computing any result in either form (English/Metric) gives answers that are equivalent. You can claim there is some convenience in using metric in getting the result, but the result is the same.

To compare that to the difference between 'the state has to prove your guilt', and 'you have to prove your innocence' is absurd. The results provided by the English and Napoleonic judicial methods are not the same.

[A. Pole]

To compare that to the difference between 'the state has to prove your guilt', and 'you have to prove your innocence' is absurd.

This is a LIE. In contintal law you DO NOT need to prove your innocence. And I have seen cases in USA when the accused was freed only after proving his innocence.