Plea bargains in the American court.

[Thorne]

You haven't been to the UK lately then, an experience you should savour, you couldn't make some of it up.

I imagine the same could be said of just about any country's legal system, as those who make the law twist it into unrecognizable contortions in order to make sure that whatever bizarre activities they are involved in won't be considered illegal. Or at worst, punishable by a slap on the wrist.