By: MH
have we finished trying Mr Smith? Is he guilty or not guilty? Sine die. jury I was picked for all the surnames selected from the revolving box were lettered only up to D,and nearly all the women’s...
View ArticleBy: Nick K
I refuse to accept someone who typed a note on a computer telling the world it was him also wore gloves to keep his fingerprints off the murder weapon. That’s just bullshit and fails all smell tests....
View ArticleBy: Mk2_Zephyr
So he read all the evidence ? don’t f think so … We could look at all the bloody evidence all over davids clothes, but nah, lets try .. By suggestion as to dbs innocence, Robin fought with Stephen and...
View ArticleBy: Reid
I wonder if a juror can insist on hearing the evidence in Maori, or will he/she be excused? It would probably be fairer if the counsel and Judge got to set a mystery test each juror had to perform as...
View ArticleBy: MH
LOL yeah get in touch with your inner truth,express yourself, pick a costume from the rack. If you turned up dressed as Monty Python’s the Grim Reaper,possibly be challenged…and the scythe confiscated.
View ArticleBy: Mk2_Zephyr
Nostalgia, you fighter for justice …. My cousin was Ronald Stephen Blyth, you remember him ?
View ArticleBy: ross69
“The Parliament and legal profession are concerned with doing their best to ensure that as few miscarriages of justice go uncorrected as possible.” Parliament is also concerned that they don’t give a...
View ArticleBy: ross69
> There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the jury was not impartial when the trial began. So could you explain why 3 jurors – during the trial – went to visit the site of the murders of...
View ArticleBy: ross69
> anybody convicted of a crime is entitled to petition the Governor General Of course they are Nostalgia, and I totally agree that that should be so. But you seem to want to have your cake and eat...
View ArticleBy: OpenMind
redeye (529) Says: September 10th, 2012 at 1:07 pm “Plenty of killers are model prisoners” and they are diagnosed as psychotic by prison psychiatrists. Funnily enough Ewen MacDonald is considered a...
View ArticleBy: F E Smith
<blockquote>So could you explain why 3 jurors – during the trial – went to visit the site of the murders of their own volition? </blockquote> In what way does that show partiality?
View ArticleBy: ross69
In what way does it show impartiality? It’s about 370 kilometres from Christchurch to Dunedin, so not a short drive. Why would 3 jurors, in the middle of a trial, decide to swanny off on such a trip,...
View ArticleBy: F E Smith
You still haven’t shown how that shows partiality (not impartiality, btw). It certainly shows overzealousness, but I cannot see how it calls the jurors initial impartiality into question. So far there...
View ArticleBy: Winston
For F E Smith, who has been inadvertently unfair to one of the finest English judges in living memory. It most certainly was not Lord Devlin who said that at the appeal of the Guildford Four. Lord...
View ArticleBy: F E Smith
Winston, thank you. My apologies to Lord Devlin. I knew it began with a ‘D’ and took a guess, but got it wrong!!! Serves me right for not confirming by Google. Or going and picking up my copy of ‘Trial...
View ArticleBy: Nostalgia-NZ
I think I used Diplock but was referring to Lord Devlin earlier. I think he might have written about the history of execution in England and perhaps the Commonwealth among a host of other things which...
View ArticleBy: Johnboy
“Or going and picking up my copy of ‘Trial by Jury’ off the bookcase.” Right next to “Fee’s and Disbursements available from the Stupid People.” Which on your bookshelf FESter, would of course be right...
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