American nurse (Ted Maher) on trial in billionaire's death says it was an accident

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[TLBSHOW]

TED MAHER CASE NOTES--A PANOPLY OF ANOMALY

>Videotape from the penthouse security camera(s) "missing"

>The police emergency tape from December 3, 1999 "missing"

>The cell phone records for Edmond and Vivian suppressed

>Sonia's three accounts in the fire report contradictory

>The first official Monaco press report stated two intruders

>Initial reports said Mr. Safra was shot twice as was Lily's second husband Alfredo Monteverde who left her two hundred million dollars shooting himself twice in the heart

>Lily changed Edmond's will shortly before his death

>Lily changed their citizenship to Monagasque before his death

>Boaz Bismuth said "the lady" sent the security team away

>"Someone" disconnected the burglar alarm July 1, 1999

>No autopsy report has been released

>Multiple ignition sources reported in the fire report

>"Sudden conflagration" at 6:00 a.m.--an hour after Ted was rushed to Princess Grace Hospital with knife wounds

>False ceilings, a trap door to the attic, special air handling equipment for independent ventilation to Edmond and Lily

>Steel roller blinds controlled separately for Edmond from an electric panel which "failed" during the attack, the blinds made manually inoperable by covering the hand crank access with "decoration"--yet Lily's remained open allowing her "escape"

>Lily had Edmond buried in Switzerland despite his lifelong wish to be buried in Israel--thwarting exhumation?

>Lily wouldn't allow the brothers near the coffin at the funeral

>The police claim Ted knifed himself--yet no medical professional would risk deadly infection by cutting himself over the intestines, and the wound locations made them extremely awkward for Ted to have caused, and the wounds required one hundred staples to close and multiple transfusions--making them far more likely to have been defensive wounds suffered in an attack than self-inflicted, and the police had TWO knives

>The police suppressed and destroyed Ted's original clothing which was slashed and bloody from the attack, provided instead brand-new undamaged and unstained sportswear, clothing Ted did not own and which would have been forbidden to be worn on shift tending Mr. Safra

>The prosecutor claimed Ted was using drugs, but the hospital tests showed Ted negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol

>Lily paid her medical supervisor Sonia Casiano-Herkrath one hundred thousand dollars in a "confidentiality agreement"--
and it was Sonia's [contradictory] testimony that is the sole account of Edmond and Vivian's calls and condition

>False confession in French--Ted does not read/write/speak

>Three days in four-point restraint, catheterized, sleep-deprived

>Police kidnap Heidi, steal passport, use to threaten Ted

>Photos and tapes of children used to threaten Ted >Ted's mail and telephone communication suppressed Consular visits must be prompted by repeated complaint Even his priest's visits have been prevented on flimsy pretext

>Judge D'Instruction Patricia Richet hugged Lily, screamed at Ted, "I know that you are guilty!" tore up children's letters


40 posted on 03/20/2002 10:07 PM EST by PhilDragoo

[job]

res ipsa loquitor is a common law tort claim;p arson is a criminal offense that requires a mens rea. Big difference, bucko... BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!

[Jalapeno]

bumpus

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

res ipsa loquitor is a common law tort claim...

Res ipsa loquitor is latin. Translated it means, "The thing speaks for itself".

The reference being to the fact that Ted admitted setting the fire. The fact that someone died as a result.

The...thing...speaks...for...itself.              Bucko.

[sinkspur]

arson is a criminal offense that requires a mens rea.

A "mens rea" like a confession?

[Fred Mertz]

Do your homework before you determine someone is guilty, you all make me want to puke!!!!

Why was this thread just moved to the chat forum?

[Jalapeno]

some AP Photos of outside the courthouse...

Ted Maher

Michael Griffith

Giffith and Kurzmann

[Jalapeno]

Safra's Wife

Safra's Brother

Griffith

[daylate-dollarshort]

”Well, yes to you and all others, this is BS”. ”And, I question your credentials and motive.”

As has become evident in other posts on this thread, you seem to be in the minority. As to mycredentials and motive, I should ask you the same. My motive is like most on this thread, to seek truth and find justice. As to my qualifications, I have followed this story from its beginnings, am a registered user of FreeRepublic and am free to form opinions and express them.

Where do you get your definition of arson? MG law, US criminal law?

Both. Arson as defined under US law includes ”the burning of an inhabited dwelling-house in the nighttime. The burning or blowing up of property when the actor forsees or anticipates the presence of persons at the site, or in such close proximity thereto, so their lives might be endangered by the act.” Maher’s actions comport with this definition when viewed together with his own admission that he was conducting a hoax, the aim of which was to benefit himself.

Article 372 of Monaco's code of criminal law provides that: "anyone spreading a fire to one of the properties listed in the previous articles, by deliberately setting fire to any one of the properties, belonging to him or to someone else, and placed in such a way that the fire would spread, shall be punished with the same penalty as if he had directly set fire to one of the said properties".

Article 373 of Monaco's code of criminal law provides that: "In all these cases, the penalty shall be life imprisonment if the fire, for anyone being in the premises, resulted in death, injuries or invalidity defined in the second paragraph of Article 235."

The Appeal Court after investigation, in transferring Ted Maher's case for trial, found enough "information" against him :

"for having in Monaco, on 3 December 1999, spread the fire in the apartment of the Safra couple located in the building Belle Epoque by willfully setting fire to a trash can, placed in such a way as to spread the said fire to the lived in premises, resulting in the death of two persons found there, Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrente,

a crime provided and punished by Articles 372 and 373 of the code of criminal law:"

Maher was ordered to trial for these crimes.

"You shrug off that a basement fire is of little importance."

No, I don't shrug it off- I dismiss it completely. The fire in the trash room in the basement trash bin (or has been variously described as dust bin and clutter bin, etc.) occurred at 6 PM about 12 hours after the fire set by Maher. The building was heavily fire damaged with fire discovered in the walls and floors. Embers or other flaming debris could very easily and likely found its way to the basement. One obvious way was via the trash chute.

As to whether Maher’s wife and brother are lying or not is irrelevant. They are not witnesses. They weren’t there. I would characterize them as advocates who by virtue of believing Maher’s lies became victims.

Ted Maher is portrayed by his advocates as a fine upstanding individual who gallantly served his country as a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. It is inferred and actually stated that he was an honorable man. I can’t help but notice that his advocates don’t report that he has a criminal record. In June, 1985 he was convicted in this country of burglary, grand theft and destruction of private property. He was sentenced to one year in prison, three years probation and seventy-five hours of community service. Do his advocates lie? Maybe they just don’t tell the complete truth.

[tracer]

Far be it for me to judge, but this appears to be a case of diminished capcity due to mental impairment.

Notwithstanding the tragic outcome of what Maher now admits was a "heroism" scam, mercy is in order, IMO, and I hope that such is forthcoming. Surely his defense attorney will consider a defense on this basis.

In any event, prayers for Ted Maher, his loyal family and friends, as well as the deceased and his family. It should not be forgotten that Ted, by all accounts, served his country with bravery and distinction.....

[Jalapeno]

NY Post: SAFRA GUARD CLAIMS COP BUNGLE LED TO FIRE DEATH

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Oh, give me a damn break. Dozens of threads on this freaking loser, where his apologists loudly shriek he didn't start the fire, and for what?

Now he finbally admits it, despite all the tinfoil the losers wasted.

This is like every goofy right wing litigation cause celebre that happens around here, where in the end, it was all just a bunch of ideological masturbation for the unhinged.

[wimpycat]

I stay away from those other threads, but a few months ago I lurked there and they were saying that this "confession" of his was coerced or faked; that he never said any of that, at least not of his own free will. Well we've got him saying on the witness stand himself that he started the fire and stabbed himself. Who knows what the explanation for that will be?

I spoke too soon. The "explanation" can be found in post #4.

[Poohbah]

I've given up on the Ted Maher crowd. They were saying that he didn't set the fire, and they believed him. Now he says he was trying to set a fire to start up the sprinklers, and they still believe him, despite his being a lying sack of s**t previously.

[wimpycat]

Is Ted Maher really a former Green Beret?

Jeffrey McDonald was a Green Beret who stabbed himself and then tried to blame it on intruders...besides their respective corps of fanatical supporters who believe everybody but their guy is a liar and conspirator, the similarities pretty much end there...

[Poohbah]

Is MacDonald the guy who was the subject of the book (and TV movie) "Fatal Vision?"

[wimpycat]

You got it.

[job]

You guys must be under 30, and must have not experienced many trials in life. (And to Bloody Sam Roberts, yes res ispe loquitor is a latin term, but it is a latin term for a tort theory, which must still just pass right over your head).

Maher's wife claims she was kidnapped, that her passports were taken, she was detained, and Maher claims that the passports were shown to him, and that he was threatened that he would never see his family again if he did not sign the confession typed for him in French. (If I were going to write a confession, I would write it in the language I spoke, plus it is impossible to type in a language you don't know at all). If it was a transcription, (if Ted confessed orally) where is the audio tape? Oh, it's missing. I see. Where is the security video tape of Belle Epoque? Oh, it's missing. Yes, what a coincidence.

You guys are very willing to give a European monarchy/dicatotorship (that has a form of government that has no sense of American due process) a great deal of faith on series of incredible coincidences (the wife that sent the security team home changes the will just weeks before the event, then has the body cremated and buried in Switzerland against the families wishes, a wife whose second husband also met an untimely death), than you are willing to give an American green beret/medical nurse, who had only commendations for his work.

So, as Ayn Rand states, there is no such thing as a paradox. A fact is true or it is not. Either Maher's wife is lying; she was never kidnapped, her passport was never taken, or she is telling the truth. It is not disputed that she did not get to Ted on that trip even by MCO police. So what evidence, not ideas, conjecture, speculation, do any of you have that Maher's wife lied? What is your source?

I don't care what you folks think, really I don't, hopefully I well never have to waste the bandwith of my life on you in person, I am not here to try and convince you otherwise. But I do find it very curious, why you are so rabidly against Ted Maher. You know, Phil Dragoo keeps telling us about Ted being awakened every 20 minutes. This might sound like unsubstantiated BS, but look at Ted's eyes, he looks exhausted, it could only come from several nights of sleep deprivation.

As to the confession, I understand once a confession has been signed, under MCO law, you cannot procedurally deny the confession. This explains what is going on in court right now.

[RGSpincich]

Typical. The names change but the results are always the same.

[Catspaw]

Ah, so the firebug admits he set the fire, but um, er, it was an accident, yeah, that's right, that's the ticket. Has that James Kopp "I only meant to wound Slepian, not to kill him" or "The Christine kids are just naturally skinny" ring to it, doesn't it?