cods wrote on Jul 18
th, 2014 at 1:03pm:
GA wrote on Jul 18
th, 2014 at 11:44am:
cods wrote on Jul 18
th, 2014 at 11:06am:
GA wrote on Jul 18
th, 2014 at 10:41am:
his is an example of why we should never let the public have any say in deciding these things, and is also why long legal trials are needed if justice is to be carried out. I mean, despite JA claiming self defense and using a knife and a gun that she'd brought with her, it can easily be argued that the crime itself was 'not' premeditated. But if her defense fails to do a good job of defending her (now that she has already been found guilty), she may get the death penalty
I have news for you sunshine..
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THE PUBLIC DOESNT HAVE A SAY IN THE OUTCOME OF ANY TRIAL....
this is a public forum but its still only for its members...I doubt very much any jury would be studying public forums..
get your facts right..people on here are voicing opinions just like neighbours do...they are not influencing anything....and as we see after many trials all sorts of things come out about the murderer...things that BY LAW are not in the media before the case is dealt with.
Penalties being handed out are increasingly reflecting the public wishes rather than what is appropriate. You get your facts straight, 'sunshine'.
REALLY.........not that I have seen... but you sound like you have inside info...so can you perhaps show me where this has taken place..
LAWS get changed by pressure......BUT THAT DOESNT ALWAYS MEAN IT APPLIES TO THE COURTS...
how many people spend LIFE in jail???...
I dont know about you.. but LIFE means to me they come out in a coffin..
as far as I know we do not have too many that will do that.....
Baden Clay will be lucky to serve 15 years should his appeal be dismissed....
we have a sick justice system... we even have judges telling us in the future we will be accepting incest...

..because we now accept gays......makes sense to some.
its judges that abuse the system and they dont give a sh!t about the public and what it wants.
There are members of the general public that do make the decisions in a court after all the evidence is presented, when they are called in to do 'jury duty'....randomly selected people, yes, from the general public, from all walks of life and backgrounds.
As for any of my comments on some random murder in another country, from the only evidence I am allowed to read that is open to the public, is all I, or anyone else, can comment on, capice GA?
Re: America and all their murders.....and Australia, are like poles apart. Is the general whole of America interested in what happens in Oz? (let along know where we are on the world map?)....
Their population is over 317 million, with an average of 2000 cops being killed in the line of duty per annum.
Our population is in Oz is about 23 million, with an average of 2 cops being killed in the line of duty per annum.
I would say America have more than enough worries without having to worry about other countries as such.
This is why each country have their own laws, but not always the same as each other, heck, even in the US of A, different states have different laws, one state will have the death penalty, whilst another won't.
I consider Australia as a big country town, where anything that happens in any State, we seem more rocked by the news, and tuned in, and it just makes us think of it more.
In Amercia, they have so much of it happening, it's just 'another day, another murder'. Their cup runneth over.
As for men seemingly being vilified more, I don't know about that, Lindy Chamberlain for instance, was very vilified.