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Said to be 'I shot the prick'.
One wonders what a jury might made of such an utterance.
Surely the unadulterated recording was played during proceedings or was it the contested transcript only?
LOL.
Update:
IV2 says at 12:37pm:
it seems that the evidence that the jury heard was only that which would lead them to concluding that the charges had not been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Margaret Wilson's beloved Supreme Court has passed its first test, just as she intended that it would.
The Bain result is in. Not guilty by virtue of a retrial.
Technically maybe, for reasonable doubt definitely exists.
For me, there is something deeply disturbing about this case. I feel a verdict of not proven guilty is long overdue as a third choice in the NZ justice system.
On a different note.
The Worth result is not in. Not guilty by virtue of no formal charge. Maybe yet to come.
Technically maybe, for persons are deemed innocent until proven guilty.For me, there is also something deeply disturbing about the actions taken so far. We have the Leader of the Opposition holding out for perceived maximum political advantage, a position which is fast being reversed. Secondly, unproven allegations have been publicly laid and the irreparable damage to an MP's career done.
I feel handling of such allegations needs clarification. Most businesses would immediately suspend an employee till such matters are sorted. Why not MP's?
Guilty or not? Your thoughts?
Update:
TSmithField over at the Stranded sums up Goff's actions. Or lack of it.
Various blogs have noted that the justice Dept is kicking around the idea of writing off fines given to habitual defaulters as a waste of effort to collect. Bad idea. All fines should be pursued equally and defaulters over 90 days locked up.
Was more interested in this hidden stat though.
Offenders at present owe $790 million in fines. Almost $450m of that is overdue
That's an awful lot of fines that are current. $340 million. Did we actually commit that much crime last month?
What a bunch of criminals we are. All that wedge due next month and if not paid then it supposedly goes overdue. An awful lot of traffic tickets.
Due on the 20th of May, assuming the Justice Dept is run like a normal business.
HT Kiwiblog
A start in the right direction. Predictably the separatist racist tribalist Maori Party thinks dialogue is possible. 'Enduring solutions' are said to be required. I could make a few suggestion on such long term solutions, but I am sure my readers will be thinking along similar lines.
I expect prisoner restraints to be fitted to vehicles and escape hatches removed irrespective of the law. The law needs changing post-haste. Convicted prisoners do not have rights the general public enjoy.
Whilst on the change in direction. A number of other recent issues.
Mr Plod needs a 24x7 presence in this area. It is not the HC jobs to ascertain whether their clientele are gang members. Like WINZ, most of their clientele already are.
Police told The Dominion Post that their officers avoided the area.
Totally unacceptable Mr Broad. It is the Police's job to ensure every street in NZ is safe.
Another issue. This oxygen sucker on a massive salary needs to work out when bail is breached. Caught with alcohol, pisses drugs.
Bailey Junior Kurariki, I don't know whether you'll come before me again but let me make it quite clear to you for your sake ... I really should have refused bail for you, and that is because the record shows that time and time again you have [been] given the opportunity to be at large, or on bail terms ... which is that you are not to consume alcohol and drugs.
But time and time again a drugs test has been given and you have failed. And once more, although you have protested that you have not taken any drugs, it wasn't until after you've been administered that test that you realised the game was up.
You then admitted that you've been taking drugs.
This is not a game, Kurariki.
What else is needed? Bail has been broken, lock the little prick up. The game was over for him six years ago.
Sort out the mess in Corrections, the soft Judiciary and the lawyers milking the legal aid system which has been left by Helengrad.
On the Mainland, yet another soft sentence is issued from the ivory towers.
All the boxes were ticked, but still no jail.
- Returned to photograph own handi-work (and got snapped)
- 'Sneaky, cowardly' crime
- Not just once
- Absurd and prolonged bout of vandalism
- Deliberate and intentional
- Vainity and stupidity ruled
- Misguided belief scribblings were art (can't help that, the good Dr K thinks the same)
- Did not want to attend restorative justice (Excuse me, isn't he the criminal?)
- Felt more OK doing it on public property, but included private as well
- Did not offer or give apology
- Night time menace
- Thought actions were justifiable
- Offender who only repented when caught
This menace needs to do time. I feel sure others would agree.
Bully boy MP Trev Mallard is to face a judge on Monday, to be prove why he should not be locked up.
The private prosecution is opposing bail and this could see the MP locked up from there. Police declined to prosecute and the matter has been festering since day one.
He is in good company - he might join another of his cohorts in being in the dock in recent times. If he turns up at all, probably thinks he is above the law. Three MPs in a week in court, two from Liarbour and one proven thief from Act. Good publicity for a corrupt government.
I go outside for 5 minutes to check the quadruped grass mowers and this gem comes in. Government on a Friday afternoon.
In a judgment released this afternoon, Chief High Court Judge Justice Tony Randerson said it was in the public interest to authorise a prosecution.
TPF is to finally face the music over alleged deals for immigration as an MP. Hopefully very strong sunlight will be shed on the subsequent involvement of senior Labour MPs post initial allegations in trying to spin their way out of trouble.
The beak also noted the allegations are
extremely serious in that they strike at the heart of the administration of government and the integrity of members of parliament
A certain piece of retrospective validation legislation fills me with the same conclusions. Pity that piece is not on the same platter about to be tested by a jury.
It will be entertaining to watch court dates be set and slip right to post election time next year to ensure nothing interferes with the next questionable action by this government - self preservation at the ballot box.
Let the jousting begin.
A bloke in an Invercargill court for a defended drink-drive hearing was noticed by the beak to be asleep and turfed out when it was found he was actually under the weather.
The man in question when addressed by the judge said"I'm not drunk in your court . . . You want to see me drunk in your court?"
After a short adjournment, when it was found near impossible to keep the defendant awake, he was remanded for proceedings at a later date.
As the original charge was for being asleep over a motor scooter on service station forecourt, maybe this bloke does not have a drink problem, but a sleep disorder? Needs a medical report, followed by the usual soft sentence.
As an aside, I note that Stuff is reporting the date of the offence as being the same as the future remand date. Good one Stuff! Copying the Southland Times?
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