The two traditional civil law countries, Italy and Greece, have introduced procedures which seem to counter such a trend. Italy has borrowed heavily from American criminal procedure, introducing previously unknown procedures to protect the accused at both the pretrial and trial stages. The effect of the legitimation of guilty pleas to bypass the revamped trial stage remains to be seen. Greece has introduced limits on pretrial detention and has begun to recognize some exclusionary rules. On the other hand, the English-based systems, the United States, Ireland, Israel, and Ghana, have all moved away from some traditional protections of the rights of an accused and placed new emphasis on speedy processing of those suspected of crime.