Comments on: White teenage girl seen entering French home: witness

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:18:04 +0000

the case at hand.
the filipino maid will most likely never return.

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:13:16 +0000

the main problem with a screenplay is you don’t know the killer…….duh.

natalee holloway would leave you with the same problem but you’re left with a much better series of back stories.

By: Origami

Origami — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:07:59 +0000

Yup, ‘was up all night reading this crap. Quite good, riveting actually. Why hasn’t this crap been made into a movie by the way?

Kind of seedy, but, has a little bit of everything.

Hmm.., I’m thinking Jessica Biel as Kenzi.

Dead girl looks a lot like that girl who got killed in Wash. D.C. Chandra something…was having an affair with that Congressman what’s his face…from California…

By: Origami

Origami — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:57:59 +0000

Brendon Carr:t’s easy to throw stones without having seen all the evidence. I have seen all the evidence, and it was easy to see that Kenzi didn’t commit that crime.

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I ain’t buying that crap O.J. Simpson lover. You know she’s guilty.

http://www.courttv.com/room_10.....index.html

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:03:23 +0000

No, I’m not a Korean attorney, and cannot represent people “in Korean court.” I work with people who do. That’s why I can only do part of the work. We are business attorneys by trade, but English language skill is limited here amongst the lawyers, and frankly speaking the ones who speak English are usually too busy making money hand over fist to take some random foreigner’s criminal case. But since I and my colleagues have made a lifestyle choice to work in a small enough firm to take what cases we want, we sometimes take interesting cases just for the interest factor.

By: lirelou

lirelou — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:36:33 +0000

Damn! Young Brendan is not only an attorney (dime a dozen these days, what with the interstate and all), but a real trial attorney who defends felony cases before Korean courts. (Remove plumed hat, render deep bow in Carr, Esq’s. direction.)

By: dda

dda — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:19:32 +0000

As for mentioning names of people involved in criminal cases, I remember reading about the French dude arrested in the corruption/acquisition of secret documents [Thales, fighter acquisition thingy]. One of the articles I saw mentionned Mr. P. The funny thing is, it’s Mr. F. The dude’s full name is 20+ letters long. I would’ve liked to see it butchered in print

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:05:14 +0000

Actually, the judgments in the appeal and the Supreme Court rulings both based the outcome on procedural issues (confession not made to prosecutor) and the substantive issues raised by evidence pointing another way.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:36:26 +0000

I’m siding with Brendon on this one. Kenzi didn’t get off on a technicality. It is precisely because of the possibility of a coerced confession that Korean courts recognize only confessions given to a prosecutor. Her guilt was not proven, and justice was served for Kenzi, but not Jamie. Had the police not mishandled the evidence so badly, perhaps her killer would be behind bars.

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:10:51 +0000

How did you reconcile the fact that the evidence didn’t point to her but she had gone on record as saying that she did it?

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I can’t reconcile that. Suffice it to say, though, that there is a large body of scholarship surrounding false confession.