"n the case of the Urewera 17, the ongoing suppression of evidence and decisions by the police and the courts,"
You seem to be horribly ignorant in regard to how the justice system works. The Police cannot release their entire case to the public or they will jeopardize any future trial unfairly and run the risk of a failed prosecution. I'm sure they would love to release it to shut-up the hysteria on sites such as this but unfortunately they chose the sensible approach. Damn them.
Its quite ironic as well that in preserving the accused rights to a fair trial that Police are being damned by the supporters of the accused.
So you're saying that people need to be kept in remand for two years on the basis of secret evidence to ensure their right to a fair trial? I think I can hear Kafka spinning from here.
If you want to keep the evidence secret, grant the suspects bail. That's natural justice.
Re: An Open Letter to Bomber about the Dawn Raids
Date Edited: 29 Oct 2007 07:42:32 AM
You seem to be horribly ignorant in regard to how the justice system works. The Police cannot release their entire case to the public or they will jeopardize any future trial unfairly and run the risk of a failed prosecution. I'm sure they would love to release it to shut-up the hysteria on sites such as this but unfortunately they chose the sensible approach. Damn them.
Its quite ironic as well that in preserving the accused rights to a fair trial that Police are being damned by the supporters of the accused.
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Re: Re: An Open Letter to Bomber about the Dawn Raids
If you want to keep the evidence secret, grant the suspects bail. That's natural justice.
Re: Re: An Open Letter to Bomber about the Dawn Raids
Also they *are* obliged to release evidence to the defence, which from what I understand they have not always been doing.
Both of these are examples of how terrorism hysteria is being used to justify the compromise of even moderate liberal democratic principles.
Strypey