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Free Despite Murder Confession (Murderer free because evidence is too compelling)
The Daily Telegraph [Sydney, AU] ^
| March 12, 2005
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Posted on 03/12/2005 1:34:40 PM PST by quidnunc
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To: redheadtoo
Just read the article again and noticed that this is from Australia, the Digest must have a version of their magazine for down under.
To: quidnunc
My own belief is that they will end up convicting George W. Bush for this crime. I believe there is absolutely no evidence to link him to the crime -- so he can be convicted without even going through a trial.
Australia is backwards land, right?
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posted on
03/12/2005 1:53:18 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: quidnunc
Its pretty safe to say, from reading the article, if one were to commit murder in front of a camera, the videotape would have to be inadmissible.
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posted on
03/12/2005 1:54:36 PM PST
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: quidnunc
When did they legalize LSD in NSW or is it reserved just for Judges?
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posted on
03/12/2005 1:56:06 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
To: quidnunc; prairiebreeze
This HAS GOT to be a joke, right? Right? sigh
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:04:49 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
He was much too guilty, we just HAD to let him go.
sheesh....
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:07:49 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(Does my American flag offend you? Call 1-800-LEAVE THE USA!)
To: quidnunc
Sounds like that judge is a real genius.
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:09:47 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: Solamente
That's what some of the jurors said about OJ - too much evidence! Or what Emperor Joseph IIs said about Mozarts opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail:
"Too many notes, my dear Mozart, and too beautiful for our ears."
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:14:18 PM PST
by
AZLiberty
("Insurgence" is futile. You will be eliminated.)
To: quidnunc
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:20:43 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Principled
"What that means, is if the a single piece of evidence is so overpowering it would sway a jury from giving a fair trial, it cannot be used.:
I guess the Atlanta killer should go free now? There is no doubt that he killed 4 people. Isn't that compelling enough?
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:23:05 PM PST
by
dvan
To: Principled
This is an example of post-modernism run amok.
To: prairiebreeze
"Not gill . . . cup? Not gillcup! You have been found not gillcup of the charges made against you and may leave this court a free man."
To: quidnunc
Some idiot tried to make this argument here locally. The trial court slapped him down, and he tried it on the appeals court.
He was laughed out of court (just about literally, the appeals court had some nasty words for him AND his lawyer in the published opinion).
Apparently the idiots got shipped to Australia, and are on the trial court bench over there.
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:30:42 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: quidnunc
Speechless, Liberalism personified.
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:35:50 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: quidnunc
Judge Anthony Whealy ruled some evidence was just too damning and ran the risk of "unfair prejudice'' to the accused.
Quick, hide this article from the US Supreme Court. If the libs on the court see this, Brian Nichols in Atlanta will be set free.
To: quidnunc
So then someone else should just kill him and document it on videotape. That way THEIR evidence will be deemed "too damning".
RIDICULOUS
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posted on
03/12/2005 2:58:49 PM PST
by
RushCrush
(I like America to some extent. -Michael Moore)
To: Brilliant
This idiot judge ought to be nervous. Ms. Buckley's family might decide to get even and leave too much compelling evidence.
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posted on
03/12/2005 3:05:18 PM PST
by
demkicker
(John McCain is a power hungry traitor and proved it on 2/19/05 in Iraq)
To: quidnunc
Doesn't evidence as such bias the outcome? In fact, isn't that the whole
point of evidence?
Therefore I propose abolishing the jury system altogether and replacing it with a coin-toss system. That way every defendant will have fairness, which is to say the exact same chance of acquittal as every other defendant.
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posted on
03/12/2005 3:25:52 PM PST
by
A.J.Armitage
(http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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