Kind of a scary story, really. I wasn't aware that French law allowed prosecutors a "second bite at the apple", so to speak.
Nice boyfriend. “Brokedown Palace” anyone?
And we complain about our justice system!
Not that it doesn’t need a little work to get the Nifong out of it.
Wow, is Jabert still around??
Bingo! Obama's New World Government will let people in Albania and Zaire order your arrest.
The French claim to be so enlightened, what are they doing having Interpol track down a granny on a 20+ year old marijuana conviction they never bothered to tell her about???
Sounds like the police were doing some racial profiling... :0)
I don't know how much of the 'Code Napoleon' comes into play here - "Guilty until proven innocent" kind of thing. This does seem to be possible here, if a prosecutor wins the appeal then she was presumed guilt when she didn't show for the second trial.
What scares me would be how Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg would use this foreign precedent in making her rulings. After all, she has already stipulated that we should use foreign jurisprudence to assist our legal system adapt to the modern world.
There is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant OR believing that the US Constitution is a little outdated.
This is the problem with the “European Arrest Warrant”. UK citizens can be arrested for things that are not a crime in the UK. At least in the US they have to extradite you from one state to another, and you can fight it in court. The EU, of course doesn’t like things that are untidy, like due process.
One of many reasons that the UK needs to leave the EU. It is beyond reforming...
The title is beyond ridiculous. What does her status as a grandmother have to do with anything? She’s 45 not 85 for pete’s sake. Are people older than 40 exempt from the law?
I’m not saying that the authorities are correct here just criticizing the title.