Murder Or Mercy?
Murder or assisted suicide?...A Canadian judge imprisoned for life...in the death of his wife...but she was not well and because of his extra marital affair...and the burden to care for his wife who suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed...he was deemed a murderer...I think he is innocent...what are your thoughts...
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Take off the s on "https" , I can't see the video
Itchy taught me how to embed youtube videos too...
I will try it...don't start with the witch!!...lol...
copy/paste url
no space...
It is a long program...unsure that people will want to view its entirety...
but I have no idea what it was all about...so what are going to talk about then?
you back to work yet?
It could be mercy on his part...but the court will have hard time seeing it that way...
to me, sounds really bad...he gave a loaded gun to his helpless wife for 30 years...if she pulled the trigger does that make him guilt-free? I don't think so...murder is a murder...
When options appear hit "web search". Found it in less than a second.
Haven't viewed it yet, so don't feel informed enough to comment on the situation.
Take time to see it...it is worth the watch...another interesting subject is Durst...The Jinx...a documentary...
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Thanx...what did you do?...tried a lot...many thanks!!
[ youtube ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40pwJhkswIc[ /youtube ]
but remove the 4 spaces inside the brackets....
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I had problems but now that the video is seen here...what do you think?...
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Don't burn anything!!...it is a long documentary...but good after a meal...an injustice that needs to be aired...
The fact that he decided to step down from being a judge...no benefits...tells me a lot...no financial reward...it is clearly a conundrum...
yes...a stupid mistake...not a hardened criminal...does he deserve years in prison due to a mistake?...no!!...I am under the assumption that he did not kill his wife...but aided it...
You might want to watch...it is worth it!!...
3 years in prison...enough, let him out and be with his family.
He will not be out soon...that is why the government needs to be alerted...I have a interest in this situation...I really feel that this man is not guilty...he needs an appeal...
It doesn't matter what the public think...he helped his wife because he loved her...she clearly was unhappy...I hope the truth will come out....
I thought political science and took some units in criminal and contract laws and I remember my case which is very similar to my case of study. Actual case of the PALFINI (husband and wife) Petaluma, California. To be guilty and not acquitted 100 percent beyond reasonable doubt, he has to be guilty as found by the 35 members of the jury, all of whom are shielded from the knowledge of the case prior to the trial.
He was tried and convicted to life in prison...he is now in his seventies?...he will die in prison...lost all appeals...only hope now is to ask the government to step in...a quite well known Canadian lawyer is taking on his case...he has helped many wrongly imprisoned in Canada...
If he was a truly a bad person...he could have left her in a care home and walked away...but he didn't...he quit his job and looked after her...he loved her...irregardless of his affair...
Despite how the judicial system is set up (rules)...his actions were wrong but he is not a risk to society...his children asked him to lie...and he got life when if he told the truth...a lesser sentence would have been the outcome...
The Fifth Estate will be on this week and I want to blog about it as well...just need to figure out how to get it on here!!...or ask hans...lol...
You can't be lenient on this and then relate all cases later for this as reference. The law is more careful on weighing the benefit for future cases unfortunately than the fate of this one man, who from the eyes of the those who studied and scrutinized every detail made it so.
It is truly a very unfortunate act on his part. He, like I said effected more the venom of his action and pawned himself than his supposed love for his wife. The law doesn't recognize again, his emotive as much as the rationality of his acts.
Nothing you and I can do. If he will be forgiven not because of his innocence but perhaps his age and health.
The judge had money and prestigious job...sometimes people like seeing people of that caliber penalized to demonstrate that the law is unbiased...the flaw here in this case was the prosecution's evidence that demonstrated he pulled the trigger...however that is now being disputed...the angle of the bullet entering and exiting her skull and the burn marks on her hand...he has only one hope to get his conviction appealed...
Yes, he aided and he already served 3 years for that therefore it's time to let him come out.
Don't think he's a threat to society too.
Sometimes money is not a blessing...he is not a career criminal...what is the point to make him suffer a long term sentence?...no point...his family even agrees...he maybe at fault of aiding the act but not involved with the criminal intent of murder...
I'm about to watch the documentary now, but I'd like to ask a question while I do: If you could put a percentage figure on 'reasonable doubt' would you acquit if you had 5% doubt? 10% doubt? 50% doubt? What would be your figure?
I think you will believe what I say...lol...hee hee...but I do have compassion for that man...
I have seen so many people on murder go to jail for a crime they have not committed, that is a different story. But this I supposed, is a tried case with all the evidence presented on both sides. When the evidences that confirm the alleged murder then think about those people that went through all the process of proving his guilt. It is beyond reasonable doubt. It is not about compassion, it is about the logic that went with it. I am sorry for him. I hope it is a lesson for all, which is mostly the result of these cases to be public. For us to know that: CRIME DOESN'T PAY.
Question to you is? What can we do now to relieved him of the judgement? Is there?
Thanks my friend.
It's a curiosity (and therefore an issue) for me for a number of reasons.
I was hoping other people might pitch in with their ideas for a percentage figure relating to how they view 'reasonable doubt'.
I'm going to finish watching that documentary now.