Posted on 03/07/2011 8:57:24 AM PST by La Lydia
The body of a young woman was found in Joran van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on a school trip to Aruba. Prosecutors in Peru say van der Sloot has admitted killing Stephany Flores after she found material on his laptop relating to Natalee. Peruvian prosecutors say Joran van der Sloot killed Stephany Flores in cold blood and want an extra long sentence. The Dutchman's lawyer says it was a spontaneous, emotional act and his client should face no more than three to five years.
Van der Sloot's Peruvian lawyer, Max Altez, told the television program "Domingo al Dia" that the death was the result of a violent argument, not intentional. Altez says he's asking his client face a 3-5 year sentence, not the 30 years prosecutors are asking for.
Edward Alvarez, an attorney for the Flores family, told El Commercio that the family rejects the defense claims and is backing the prosecution. No trial date has been set yet and there's still plenty of legal wrangling unresolved, including whose responsibility is it to provide a Dutch-Spanish translator. The Dutch embassy has said it's not their job.
Mountain Brook teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on a school trip to Aruba in May 2005. She was last seen leaving a club with van der Sloot and two of his friends. Van der Sloot was never charged...Natalee's body has never been found.
Van der Sloot is also under a federal indictment issued here in Alabama charging him with wire fraud and extortion. The FBI says he promised the family information about Natalee's fate, took their money, but never provided the information.
Van der Sloot has told a variety of versions of what happened that night in 2005....frequently to Dutch newspaper and television reporters. Natalee's mother Beth accompanied a Dutch tv crew into van der Sloot's Peruvian prison last year. The confrontation yielded footage for a 2 parter on Dutch TV but no information on Natalee's fate....
It’s a crime of passion only to the extent that murdering young girls in cold blood is this guy’s passion.
I guess in a sense it’s a valid argument since it seems VDS has a passion for killing young women.
Whatever jail time he gets for this, he’s facing a much worse fate in the future. I wouldn’t be him for anything.
If someone were to kill this bastard in prison, maybe they will be able to claim the same- 'a crime of passion'?
Another thing, how could any lawyer even think to represent this scum?
Prosecuters are asking only 30 years? That’s not nearly long enough.
I've always believed that he was up to his eyeballs in gambling debts and drugged Natalee and sold her to a sex slave outfit in Venezuela which is why they couldn't find any trace of a body. A beautiful blonde would bring top dollar.
....if he did sell her into the sex slave trade, her buyers eliminated her as soon as CNN posted her photo. I think VDS killed her and his Dad helped dispose of the body.
Some lawyer has to do it or there wouldn’t be a trial.There’s always some lawyer with the heart of a snake ready to answer the call.
I hope the next article i read about this d-bag is in regards to his violent death at the hands of fellow prisoner El Lupe.
After Joran’s attempted escape and the assault of a guard I think it’s safe to say he’s not getting off with 5 years.
When he’s convicted and serving his prison term he’ll be a celebrity for not only murdering a young Peruvian woman but for attacking that guard. He may well not serve out his entire sentence or even close to it.
He deserves representation in a criminal matter. Doesn't mean he's innocent, just that he deserves representation. If you're charged with a crime, you should be entitled to be represented by somone who knows the law. There isn't any way to draw the line ahead of time as to who should be hanged immediately and who not.
Here lies the body of Arkansas Jim.To me this isn't nearly so bad as lawyers representing the scum who make a living suing business for lack of handicap access etc. These guys are nothing but shakedown artists.
We made the mistake,
But the joke's on him.
Ha! His lawyer ought to get three to five just for suggesting that.
“Another thing, how could any lawyer even think to represent this scum?”
Most but all will do anything you can think of for money, They have no morals and no pride...
I agree, "forever" would be better -- but:
"Peru is one of nine countries in the world that does have the death penalty, but only for crimes 'committed in exceptional circumstances'. This means crimes that are committed in times of war or genocide or crimes under military law."
If money doesn’t work, and notoriety doesn’t work, in most systems an attorney will be assigned the task, whether they want it or not.
This attorney is not going to the mattresses for this defendant however. He has already ceded the principal point, that the defendant committed the act.
Van der Sloot is toast, and daddy can’t protect him over there.
He will not survive Peruvian prison.
3 to 5 years??
wow.
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