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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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 Posted - 26 Mar 2010 : 23:32:33
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| Mr. Marreh is full of bull****,what can he remember then? |
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Kitabul Arerr
Gambia
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Posted - 26 Mar 2010 : 23:48:40
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| I'd not be supprised if the "star witness" is non Gambian!?!?!? |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 Mar 2010 : 23:50:04
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Originally posted by kayjatta
The American Bar Association (ABA) does not seem to agree with your statement above. Certainly the Florida experiment in the 1980s diagrees also.
The live tv coverage of court procedings by CNN, E!, and to some extent C Span appears to bring into clash the reporters' First Amendment Right (free speech) and the defendants' Sixth Amendment Right (fair trial).Despite the Jury system in the U.S. both the Florida and the ABA study did not find any significant influence on the outcome of trials by tv coverage.However, most State courts in the U.S. significantly allow televised court procedings; although the Supreme Court still restricts despite growing pressure from the public and the senate for it to open up more...
"To some, public scrutiny is an important asset. Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged with the terrorist attacks on September 11, asked for his trial to be televised despite a ban on cameras in federal courtrooms. In requesting the cameras, his goal was to put "the American criminal justice system …on display for the entire world." The American Bar Association (ABA).
yes, I Know the American justice system does allow live tv coverage but this not a norm in the UK and the British commonwealth ie. Australia, New Zealand, Republic of ireland, canada etc due to the reason I have stated earlier.
Please note U.S unlike Gambia, is not a member of the British Commonwealth.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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kobo
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kayjatta
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Posted - 29 Mar 2010 : 06:54:16
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Originally posted by Nyarikangbanna
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Originally posted by kayjatta
The American Bar Association (ABA) does not seem to agree with your statement above. Certainly the Florida experiment in the 1980s diagrees also.
The live tv coverage of court procedings by CNN, E!, and to some extent C Span appears to bring into clash the reporters' First Amendment Right (free speech) and the defendants' Sixth Amendment Right (fair trial).Despite the Jury system in the U.S. both the Florida and the ABA study did not find any significant influence on the outcome of trials by tv coverage.However, most State courts in the U.S. significantly allow televised court procedings; although the Supreme Court still restricts despite growing pressure from the public and the senate for it to open up more...
"To some, public scrutiny is an important asset. Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged with the terrorist attacks on September 11, asked for his trial to be televised despite a ban on cameras in federal courtrooms. In requesting the cameras, his goal was to put "the American criminal justice system …on display for the entire world." The American Bar Association (ABA).
yes, I Know the American justice system does allow live tv coverage but this not a norm in the UK and the British commonwealth ie. Australia, New Zealand, Republic of ireland, canada etc due to the reason I have stated earlier.
Please note U.S unlike Gambia, is not a member of the British Commonwealth.
Thanks
I presumed you knew that the U.S. was not a member of the C-wealth. However, the question whether "televised trials actually deny defendant's right to a fair hearing" remains unanswered from your side.
Is there any recent independent study in the 'C-wealth jurisdiction' that supports this view |
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kobo
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mansasulu
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Posted - 30 Mar 2010 : 18:28:26
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| The trial is a sham as is the case with all other trials in Gambia. On the other hand, I do not for a single moment feel for some of the accused on trial because their hands are full of dirt themselves for shameless aiding, supporting or standing by with their arms folded as their fellow gambians were victimized in the past. Like the saying the black bull "I was busy eating when the white bull was being eating by the wolf." What goes around truely comes around. I am not at all disturbed by the manner in which this case is being prosecuted, albeit shamelessly. This was the same system some of the accused actively and directly fought tooth and nail to prop up and defend, so it is only fitting that they expect their dues and rights from it. My guess which is good as anyone's is that the key defendants will be found guilty and serve a lengthy time in prison so the quicker they get with it the better. |
"...Verily, in the remembrance of Allâh do hearts find rest..." Sura Al-Rad (Chapter 13, Verse 28)
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
1295 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2010 : 23:03:10
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| Bravo Mansusula,well-said you are absolutely right.Its a matter of who is next in line to go.One minute you are a General and the next in jail. |
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dbaldeh
USA
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Posted - 31 Mar 2010 : 08:52:26
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I absolutely agree this trial is more than a scam of the century. However, decency dictates that we should be concern about what this trial is revealing.
The state is the most powerful and if they can plant such witnesses against a citizens then they can and will do it to convict anyone to death.
Two wrongs also never make a right... this is how cycle of revenge starts in a nation. If Marreh can testify against Tamba and others what would prevent the next Ebou from doing the same thing against someone else?.
This is worrisome to say the least... May decency and fairness prevail at the end and may Gambia survive all the repercusions that comes with such trials... |
Baldeh,
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Ghandi
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kobo
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