The Vienna Convention on Consular rights has been applied in various ways across the world to afford unequal application of the privileges in the treaty. In nations that follow the US method of procedural default, these rights to access and discuss with your consular official when arrested, are almost never given as they are defaulted at trial. While in other nations like Germany that follow the ICJ method in Avena generally make sure this right is offered even with procedural default. Therefore it is important to know how your nation operates and what foreign nationals could miss out on.
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