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===== LegalRuleML (Tara) ===== Use Case of a Generic Criminal Legal System with input from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Criminal_Procedure#Parties) Actors Parties may have agents acting on their behalf, and these agents may be restricted in their access to the KB to some subset of the authority of the Party. - Judges - may be different depending on stage of proceedings - suspect - defendant - prosecutor - police - injured party - civilly-liable party (to pay damages and/or fines) - counsel (lawyers) for suspect/defendant - witnesses - experts - courts - jury (not in Italy) - legislature Actions The particular actions are roughly categorized based on CRUD * Create (POST) * Read (GET) * Update (PUT/PATCH) * Delete (DELETE) Note that the difference between Create and Update is a function of the modularity of the KB. In a highly modular architecture, a new table/knowledgebase-module may be created when a law is passed, when an investigation is opened, etc.. In a less modular architecture, these actions may be Updates rather than Creates. - (*CRU) pass, modify and annul *laws* - Legislature - (*R) query (including semantic query) to legal KB for details of the legal code - General Public - (*CRU) maintain records of investigations - Prosecutor, Judges, Defendant, Counsel, Police - (CRU) initiate proceedings - Prosecutor - (CRU) call a hearing - Judge - (*CRU) file requests (authorization to conduct investigations, such as wire-tapping) - Prosecutor - (*CRU) issue an order (e.g. authorizing investigations), *with explanation* - Judge - (CRU) appeal an order - Prosecutor, Counsel - (RU) drop charges - Prosecutor - (CRU) proceed to trial - Judge, Prosecutor - (*CRU) file a brief - Counsel - (CRU) summon witness or expert - Prosecutor, Counsel - (*CRU) provide testimony or expert judgement - Witness, Expert, Defendant, Injured Party - (*RU) convict/acquit, *with explanation* - Judge, Jury - (*CRU) issue a sentence - Judge - (CRU) appeal a conviction - Prosecutor, Counsel - (*RU) reverse, amend or quash a decision, *with explanation* - Judge - (UD) delete/expunge records - Court - (CRU) manage records on payment of penalties, imprisonment, etc - Court Those items with * are the services that go beyond the capability of an ordinary database, requiring encoding of natural language texts into a knowledge representation language and performing specialized actions, such as parsing or (semantic) querying, on that encoding.
