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You're welcome. Ted Maher has gotten alot of play on Free Republic as a discussion topic, but little hardcore, big-time American media interest. The case is complex, including a coerced confession and many, many other ins and outs that I think many I've noticed who've posted here today on this thread are unfamiliar. I think more of his story came right back to you when you realized which Maher this was. But, truthfully, so many folks don't have any idea. Monegasque courts are unique and do not have high standing, as one poster suggested. There should be a statement by one of Edmund Safra's brothers tonight in which he addresses the suppressed evidence and coverups at trial, engineered by the Monegasque prosecutor and the court itself. Foreign press, including several well known personages in the American media, felt this trial was a farce from beginning to end. No one could believe Ted was convicted from what I'm hearing out of court press pool. They were taken aback by the overtness of the coverups at trial and were actually caught laughing at the ridiculousness of exclusions and testimony given in the course of the trial. There's much more, but suffice to say no one should be gloating in an American convicted in Monaco, or saying that he got what he deserved when they don't know the facts of the case. I've seen the autopsy reports on Safra and the female nurse killed in the same incident--they did not die by asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation. Both were dead before they breathed in any of that.

You're welcome. Ted Maher has gotten alot of play on Free Republic as a discussion topic, but little hardcore, big-time American media interest. The case is complex, including a coerced confession and many, many other ins and outs that I think many I've noticed who've posted here today on this thread are unfamiliar. I think more of his story came right back to you when you realized which Maher this was. But, truthfully, so many folks don't have any idea. Monegasque courts are unique and do not have high standing, as one poster suggested. There should be a statement by one of Edmund Safra's brothers tonight in which he addresses the suppressed evidence and coverups at trial, engineered by the Monegasque prosecutor and the court itself. Foreign press, including several well known personages in the American media, felt this trial was a farce from beginning to end. Ted's case is clouded by his unwillingness to back off his claim that he started the fire in the wastebasket; he wasn't able to retract the confession by Monegasque law, which states that the accused must stick with their first claim, even if it indicates guilt. Did he actually kill Safra and Torrente, the nurse? No. They were dead, according to the autopsy reports suppressed at trial, before suffering smoke inhalation. Did he start the fire in the wastebasket--he says he did, but that was not what led directly to the deaths. Even Safra's widow, Lily Safra, stood up in court and said she felt that others were responsible. You don't really need conspiracy theories when the facts speak for themselves.