Posted on 01/30/2014 1:13:40 PM PST by Uncle Chip
I haven’t followed the case at all. What happened?
It took 16 posts before you jumped on board. If the exact scenario had happened here in the U.S., she wouldn't have even been charged in the beginning.
This was a typical foreign court with an over zealous prosecutory team attempting to convict an American student of murder based on greatly flawed evidence.
The original guilty verdict was overturned, and rightfully so.........Now you're supporting double jeopardy?
This case is reason why we have the legal system in place that attempts to protect citizens from this travesty of justice..;.....
go psss up a stump
I would definitely lay low if I were her —
She was convicted ONCE before but that conviction was overturned in a second trial. Not liking that, they decided to try her a THIRD time. The principle against double jeopardy is so ingrained that it would be constitutionally wrong to send her to a country where they can keep trying you until they get a conviction.
Your faith in the justice system is touching, nick.
As I understand it, her initial conviction was overturned on appeal. So one could as easily say that, upon review, she was acquitted. ACQUITTED. Without being personally acquainted with the case, none of us know for sure what her involvement was.
Gonna be made in Tennessee !
Well, she is a cracka! So you may be right.
Not Guilty!
She *may* be party to a murder though. ;)
You must have missed all the evidence at Post #6
True enough...but Texas's justice system,like every other one that's ever existed,is imperfect.It's naive not to believe that a small percentage of people convicted in this country *are*,in fact,not guilty.In fact I think it's likely that a small percentage (very probably less than 1%) of those executed in Texas recently were not guilty.So not committing a murder in Texas isn't,IMO,an absolute iron clad guarantee that you won't be *convicted* of murder there.
No, all women have the potential to be evil. Goes back to Eve.
You said "This women is evil".
If you had said "this woman is" evil or "these women are evil", I would have agreed and shut up, but you did not.
Make it Hong Kong instead.
We’re going Asian this fall.
Just hoping Bangkok don’t blowup.
as for Italy, I came, I cameraed, I boogied to Greece..
You haven't been paying attention, have you?
Did she do cartwheels and make out with her current boyfriend after the decision?
No, she was first acquitted. She was convicted in the second trial. Under U.S. law, she never would have stood trial a second time because that would constitute double jeopardy.
That was a typo I didn’t notice.
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