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[avgas]

It's funny how so many people complain about political correctness, then toe the line without a thought.
How about saying "fuck the system, I'll say/print what I like".
Gosh, If enough people did that we may end up with a democracy.

Nah just burnt down schools and protests on the beach - thats all your gonna get here

[Faster]

A bollocking?? Fuck that, he should've been arrested for impersonating a Police Officer!

Hard Candy! Pete he needs to be taught a lesson! :0) Icepack anyone?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Hard Candy! Pete he needs to be taught a lesson! :0) Icepack anyone?

Not really Love, as she didn't actually cut his balls off!

[Faster]

Not really Love, as she didn't actually cut his balls off!

But I like what she got him to do to himself........... Is that wrong??

[Crasherfromwayback]

Not at all!

[Ixion]

The rule is called "Sub judice" or some spelling like that, and it means you can't discuss it in the media, and that includes on a web forum like this, so technically if we discuss the trial or his crimes, beyond reporting of what happened in court, KB could be done for contempt of court.
ALso if we say what a lot of people know already about the suppressed evidence then we can be done for ... um, contempt again?
Yeah, something like that.

Nonsense.

So long as no mention is made of matter that is the subject of a suppression order, then, apart from those directly involved (jurors, witnesses etc) there is no law in this country that forbids fair comment of a trial while it is in progress.

It is totally legal for me , for instance , to say "It doesn't look good for Defendant X, the evidence is looking pretty damning" . or, "I don't think the prosecution evidence about XXXX amounted to much".

TPTB would dearly love people to believe that any matter that is any way under the jurisdiction of a court cannot be mentioned at all, ever. That way , it is very easy for them to hush things up. Those who pander to their attempts to stifle fair comment and reasonably stated opinion should carefully reflect on how little freedom would be left us if such a consition were to come to pass. Very little indeed, methinks.

EDIT BTW cyfswatch is back up at http://cyfswatchnz.wordpress.com/. Though I doubt that is a very good example of responsble public comment.

[Guitana]

See Clint can't have done it he was in a full leg cast plus an all blacks backing him up on the night in question they were busy screwin some other bird!!!!

[Hitcher]

We should start a poll as to whether the accused will get acquitted or not. That full-leg plaster cast has potential as a robust alibi.

[Guitana]

We should start a poll as to whether the accused will get acquitted or not. That full-leg plaster cast has potential as a robust alibi.

Dosent excuse the other two though but still pokes a huge hole in the case!!
like a hole the size of the entrance to the MT VIC tunnel!!!

[Squeak the Rat]

Dosent excuse the other two though but still pokes a huge hole in the case!!
like a hole the size of the entrance to the MT VIC tunnel!!!

I thought he was the one with the bottle. Can still use a bottle when your legs is a cast......

[Crasherfromwayback]

We should start a poll as to whether the accused will get acquitted or not. That full-leg plaster cast has potential as a robust alibi.

Yeah that's a good one alright! Although, if I'm not wrong aren't the dates the alledged offence/s took place something like between Nov-April or something? Didn't he get the cast off in Dec? Crutches till mid-late Jan?

Here's the way I see it (Him).

1: He was a policeman.
2: His mates that he seems to have spent a lot of his time with have been convicted of rape.
3: His name keeps coming up with these same 'mates'.
4: He's an ex undercover that's used to lying to, and deceiving people to get the right 'outcome'
5: My mates know who I sleep with, and under what circumstances.
6: I know who my mates sleep with, and under what circumstances.
7: Even IF he's never forced sex upon a woman, or he's NEVER sexually violated a woman, he without doubt IN MY MIND has known his mates have been doing so/have done so.
8: So seeing as he was a policeman (as were some of the perpertrators), why does that make him any better than the ones that've gone down for it?

I tell you all here and now, if I EVER knew any of my friends had done such heinous acts, I'd have no hesitation in going straight to the POLICE.

Although it seems if you lived in Rotorua around the time of the 'alleged' offending, they'd more than likely tell you to piss off and ask your mate if he wanted to join their 'gang'!