I have been thinking about this : if it takes millions of pounds to convict someone, isn’t that reasonable doubt? In long running cases, there are often complaints about the cost. I say that if it costs millions of pounds and many years to get a conviction, the evidence must be very thin indeed. That’s […]
Twitter, George Zimmerman, Jodi Arias and the Shadow home secretary
George Zimmerman was lucky enough to have a sequestered jury, otherwise he may have been lynched by social media the same way Jodi Arias was. In the UK, the shadow home secretary is calling for twitter to be better regulated. I don’t think her “solution” is correct, but it needs looking at. In the Jodi […]
As Nelson Mandela passes, who will be the new imprisoned leaders in the internet age
Nelson Mandela has surely been one of the great leaders to have shaped history from a prison cell. Another great leader from history was Mahatma Gandhi the leader of nationalism in India prior to independence, imprisoned in 1942 by the British and assassinated in January 1948. In more recent times, Aung San Suu Kyi, the […]
The search for the Femme Fatale ( a.k.a. Witch )
Over many centuries, women have been put on trial, accused of "witch-craft", or in more recent times of being a "Femme Fatale" – having the ability to control men and to commit heinous crimes for no plausible reason. Debra Milke has spent 23 years on death row in Arizona. On the flimsiest evidence, people are still […]
Interpreting the knife blade DNA results in the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito
Introduction The most important and apparently decisive evidence advanced by the prosecution was DNA evidence found on a knife seized by the police from the kitchen of Raffaele Sollecito’s apartment, and on the hook of the bra worn by the victim, discovered in the room where the murder was committed. According to the […]