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Man gets 25 years in Scuba death
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, Nov 10 2009 10:27 PM
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 12:03 AM
Any lawyers please chime in here, why do these people get off without at least a life sentence in jail?
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 05:57 AM
Anyone read why the judge gave 25 years instead of the "near mandatory life sentence"?
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 09:21 AM
I believe that he's guilty, but I might have a hard time as a juror with that, since all of the evidence was circumstantial.
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It won’t do to have truth and justice on his side; he must have law. - Charles Dickens
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 12:10 PM
Anna -Anyone read why the judge gave 25 years instead of the "near mandatory life sentence"?
It looks like the guy got 25 without parole. He is 53, so he is facing release at age 78 after 25 years in a Caribbean jail. This looks like a pretty good sentence given the fact they are more "civilized" than the US where we deal in more three syringe, Old Testament punishment for capital crimes!
We can only hope he rapidly acclimates into the prison society and becomes somebody's punk girlfriend ASAP.
Maybe he will see the error of his ways in time!
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Posted 13 November 2009 - 06:31 PM
I don't know about this folks. He may have been a bad husband, a cheat, and maybe he even did it, but the evidence (at least what is outlined here) doesn't add up to a conviction for murder, at least not by the standards of any advanced western democracy. , This could have been an accident or someone else could have done it. No witnesses, no direct evidence, ten years of time gone by. On the surface this starts to look more like a Kangaroo court or an over zealous prosecutor that needed to appease a popular sense of justice based on a civil court case that uses a completely different burden of proof. I would hate to get into a car accident in BVI and end up convicted of murder.
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