Breaking News" [Ted] Maher Convicted = Ten Years

ABC News | December 2, 2002

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[wimpycat]

So riddle me this. IF what you allege is true, then why won't Ted Maher publicly renounce this so-called "coerced" confession? Since Ted himself refuses to recant his confession publicly, in front of the press, just who is alleging the confession was coerced, besides his wife? Who else, besides his wife and attorney, has had access to him for him to recant the confession? I thought all his contacts with his wife were closely monitored so that the case couldn't be discussed, so how would she know anyway?

If I were being railroaded, I'd say so every time a cameraman or journalist came near me, at the top of my lungs!

[Bkauthor]

Yep, I know that as well. By his own admission, he had a role that night, but I don't think he was alone.

[jude24]

"Facts, schmacts. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!!!!" - Homer Simpson

[Rodney King]

Dominick Dunne of Vanity Fair is about the only one.

Do you have a link? Also, which major media figures think Maher (Ted) is innocent? Surely if you care about his conviction, you would want to out these people to help drum up public support for Ted. Wouldn't you?

[Jalapeno]

In case you haven't noticed, we have quite a number of sheeple on FR who actually believe what the media writes and reports.

Fred,

In this specific case, where are the lies in the media. I know there is some question to the background story the that Time wrote. Anything else?

[Bkauthor]

Please see my additional post. By Monegasque law, the accused is not permitted to recant a confession, even under the strangest of circumstances. Ted has not been permitted, as those in American courtrooms are, to be near the media. The jailers in Monaco have also refused to permit "48 Hours" and "Dateline NBC" to interview him from behind bars. He's just not given that kind of access, the kind we're so accustomed to in this country.

[Constitution Day]

BOYCOTT THE BCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rodney King]

By his own admission, he had a role that night, but I don't think he was alone.

Wait a second, isn't he being coerced? Why would you assume that anything that he admitted is true?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And don't forget that they've invested all their holdings in gold, for the coming collapse. They've got tents and MREs left over from their Y2K prep, too (Y2K really did bring on a collapse, but it is being hushedup by a cabal of governments and newspapers, led by the NWO/CFR/CIA/DEA/Illuminati/Freemasons/P2/BCCI/Globalist consortium.

[RabidBartender]

Heh..."EVERYONEBUTMELIES" and "NOT BILL MAHER" are my favorites.

[job]

So, you are in no way associated with Courttv, and you have never worked for them or done any contract work for them, or consulted for them, or contributed in any way to their coverage of any article?

[Jalapeno]

here

[TLBSHOW]

I would think the whole thing is a lie and he is innocent!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Lighten up, Francis. Mockery and scorn of the whackos is what I do best and enjoy most. If you can't handle it, find another pshrink.

[Bkauthor]

The media present at trial are on hand to report and give impressions on what they see going on. I think we'll see some interesting pieces soon enough. The verdict was just rendered--give it time. Dominick Dunne has written about Ted Maher in several of his Vanity Fair pieces and talked about Maher on Larry King Live a number of times. It's not for Dominick or anyone else in the media to pass personal judgment on Maher, but none would tell you they are comfortable with the way the trial went. It was a staged circus and that usually doesn't end well for the defendent.

[Rodney King]

Ted has not been permitted, as those in American courtrooms are, to be near the media.

That's funny. Then where did this picture come from?:

American nurse Ted Maher, right, talks with his American lawyer Michael Griffith at Monaco's courthouse Thursday Nov. 28, 2002, during his trial for the arson death of his billionaire employer Edmond Safra on Dec. 3, 1999. Authorities are seeking life in prison for Maher, who claims he never expected the fire he started in a small wastebasket in Safra's luxury Monaco penthouse to rage out of control and kill Safra and another nurse. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

[Fred Mertz]

...I just think you are some sad, pathetic small person who feels stronger by ridiculing other people's misery.

Spot on, Job!

[Jalapeno]

So, you are in no way associated with Courttv, and you have never worked for them or done any contract work for them, or consulted for them, or contributed in any way to their coverage of any article?

Oh, well, if you are going to be all encompassing..I participated in the chat where Michael Griffith stated Ted did cut himself and he did start the fire. You see, I actually wanted to know the truth.

Thread is here. I was Josey Wales.

Otherwise No.

Now you answer a question for me...who told you I did? Whoever it was is a bold face liar.

[wimpycat]

You saw the picture on this thread? Even with a zoom lens, he's close enough for the cameraman to hear him if he shouted, "I'm being railroaded! I'm innocent!" And yet, he doesn't.

[Jalapeno]

TLBSHOW,

Your reactions on this issue have always puzzled me, because you seem to be a rational thinker. Yet the only time you addressed me on this issue, you did not discuss the facts, you merely said my motives were "suspicious".

In all sincerity, I am curious. What in the media about this case is such a lie?