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| Thread ID: 126015 | 2012-08-01 23:45:00 | Judge lifts Ewen McDonald Suppression Order | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1292210 | 2012-08-01 23:45:00 | Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) Quite a nasty person. |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1292211 | 2012-08-01 23:50:00 | Yes, you could see how he could scale that up to murder. I think its time al previous prosecutions and conviction were show to the jury. I was on a jury and imho most of the members were average kiwis and intelligent enough to sort out a speeding offence to child molestation etc. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1292212 | 2012-08-02 04:29:00 | Yeah, seems the guy didn't like to be crossed in the slightest way, even when the 'cross' was catching him up to no good where he didn't belong. Gotta also wonder about his accomplise in all of this. Who was the bigger nutter? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1292213 | 2012-08-02 05:08:00 | Yeah, seems the guy didn't like to be crossed in the slightest way, even when the 'cross' was catching him up to no good where he didn't belong. Gotta also wonder about his accomplise in all of this. Who was the bigger nutter? Indeed. www.stuff.co.nz |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1292214 | 2012-08-02 05:13:00 | Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) Quite a nasty person. Clearly a psychopath of the highest magnitude. Should be shot even if he didn't kill, the world would be a better place. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1292215 | 2012-08-02 09:08:00 | Clearly a psychopath of the highest magnitude. Should be shot even if he didn't kill, the world would be a better place. You just wanna date his hot (ex)wife |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1292216 | 2012-08-02 09:48:00 | You just wanna date his hot (ex)wife Don't we all? :D |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1292217 | 2012-08-03 02:40:00 | I think this with-holding information from Juries is very Patronizing. If the people on a Jury are intelligent enough to be trusted in deciding someones guilt or innocence, they should also be trusted with all the facts. It should be up to the Jury to decide on it's relevance. | McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1292218 | 2012-08-03 03:17:00 | If the people on a Jury are intelligent enough to be trusted in deciding someones guilt or innocence, they should also be trusted with all the facts. It should be up to the Jury to decide on it's relevance. I think the jury would have been presented with all the facts relevant to the case. Of what significance to the murder trial was the pending judgement on another matter? None. The trial was for the murder of Scott Guy. There would be very few people who weren't repulsed by news of the killing of 19 defenseless animals along with the other senseless acts. The impact on the jury to learn of that appalling and abhorrent behaviour of McDonald and his co-offender may arguably have helped create a mind set in the jurors' minds of guilt right from the start of the proceedings. Few people would have been able to keep an open mind to the matter in hand with the conditioning that that knowledge would have created. We may or may not agree with the verdict, but the task at hand was giving McDonald a fair trial, and that was achieved. And without being patronising. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1292219 | 2012-08-03 03:56:00 | I'm sure it could be argued that past behaviour including the killing of 19 calves with a hammer would have been very relevant to the case in as much as it illustrates the mental state into which he was capable of descending when he had a grudge. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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