Posted on 05/06/2006 11:20:58 AM PDT by aculeus
No, if she had stabbed him 20 times, that would be different.
No, if she had stabbed him 20 times, that would be different.
Another example of the decay of Western Civilization...
Only the decay of Western juries.
Distant Kennedy relation located in UK.
By the jury's verdict it is plain that you did not take the knife with you to attack Julie Simpson.
Square with this:
Before leaving home, she had wrapped a kitchen knife in tissue paper and put it in her handbag.
Name an innocent reason one carries a butcher knife wrapped in Kleenex in one's handbag?
Had she shot a burglar in her own home she would have been in big trouble.
"How does this:
By the jury's verdict it is plain that you did not take the knife with you to attack Julie Simpson.
Square with this:
Before leaving home, she had wrapped a kitchen knife in tissue paper and put it in her handbag."
It tells you how it squared in the article:
"She said she took the knife with the intention of taking her own life in front of Miss Simpson."
You can think what you like about the veracity of that, but it tells you the reason.
Killing your spouse's lover "in the heat of passion" used to be a mitigating circumstance. But despite her assertion that she brought a kitchen knife with her to kill herself, I find it very difficult to believe that this was not a premeditated killing.
Contrast this with the farmer who defended his home by shooting a burglar who threatened his life, and was given a sentence of life in prison for it.
Justice in England is very badly distorted.
Hell hath no fury like a scorned foot doctor. It's interesting that about the only place she didn't stab that woman was on her tootsies.
"There are many victims, not just Julie Simpson.."
How twue, how wery twue. It's just that Ms. Simpson is the one who was left with a punctured lung, blind in one eye and disfigured for life. I'll bet anything that Ms. Simpson would trade 30 months of her life to get back her complete eye sight and unscarred face and body. Instead of 2 l/2 years in prison like Dr. Foster, she's got a life-long sentence now.
It's right that I should talk to her privately before making any decisions about the future."
That's right, take her into the kitchen and have a nice long talk with her, not that she'll remember it later.
She no doubt intended to open
some mail en route!
We keep hearing the line:
"Since you weren't in the
court room to hear the
evidence first hand, it is
not right to judge the
deisions of the jury."
Just reaffirms the truth
of the old platitude re
the verdict depends on
which party has the best
lawyer!
Quite a challenge but I'll try.
In case you run into an escaped side of beef?
it tells you the excuse that didn't work for Betty Broderick...What are the stats on people who go to someone else's home with a weapon and then does no harm to them but kills themselves????
What are the stats on suicide by knife - except, perhaps cutting wrists, which, if in front of someone, will hardly be fatal - unless that person decides to shrug and walk away..
In case one needs to perform emergency amputation of a very runny nose.
You ran out of Viva paper towels and you couldn't lower yourself to wrap it in Great Northern toilet paper?
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
"Justice in England is very badly distorted."
That may or may not be the case, but I am always wary of second guessing the decision of a jury when they have had the opportunity to listen to all the evidence, arguments for both sides and all I have is a news summary.
That's the case here and is the case in the Tony Martin case that you reference. In that case Martin was found guilty by a jury that had heard all the evidence, a verdict that was confirmed on appeal. He wasn't, though 'given a life sentence for shooting a burglar who threatened his life' as you say - if the jury had found that to be the case they would have acquited (on the murder charge in any case, I believe there were other charges based on the fact that Martin's guns were not licenced). The facts as established by the jury was that Martin shot the burglar in the back while he was running away from the property, having been disturbed, and was not posing any threat to Martin's life. That was why he was convicted.
June Cleaver would know.
Gee, she's lucky she stabbed somebody with it or she would have been thrown in jail for ten years for carrying a pointy knife.
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