Originally posted by KazetNagorra
The U.S. legal system doesn't really have a stellar reputation abroad, due to embarrassments such as Guantanamo, absurd punitive damages and the O.J. Simpson case.
If you want the US to cooperate with extradition of criminals who commit crimes against Europe and in general with enforcing applicable European law where the US has jurisdiction, then you ought to do the same.
To start nitpicking on individual incidents and summarily conclude that the US justice system is not trustworthy in general makes no sense. Is it the position of the European countries that the US is a lawless country without a reliable judicial system? If not, the don't interfere with its operation. If so, then drawing that conclusion is smug sanctimonious nonsense.
In any case, all three of your examples are completely irrelevant here.
Guantanamo has nothing to do with the US Judicial system, which was the entire point of the controversy. The entire controversy was exactly that the Guantanamo inmates were not given access to the US court system.
Punitive damages is a civil issue. What in the World does that have to do with the criminal justice system? What business is it of the Europeans how much money plaintiffs are awarded in civil cases in the US?
The OJ Simpson case?? What?? You mean his acquittal in 1995? That was a jury verdict. You might not have noticed, but they have those in the UK too. The whole concept of a jury was born and reared in the UK. The UK should now refuse to extradite a computer hacker because one jury did something stupid 15 years ago? I don't get it.