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Liverpool Lou

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  1. 1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

    Customs is a racket, just like immigration, the border patrol, the RTP, and the army. They are all corrupt beyond imagination. And the level of corruption simply escalates, the further up the food chain you go. The police and army are not expected to be honest, and they are not expected to engage in law enforcement, traffic or public safety, on any level. It is an irrevocably broken and dysfunctional system. Any hyperbole to the contrary, is just a smoke screen, intended to deceive the most naive amongst us.

    "Any hyperbole to the contrary, is just a smoke screen, intended to deceive the most naive amongst us".

    The receipt that she has refutes all that naïve hyperbole of yours.

  2. 2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

    Why not remove these silly luxury taxes? Then foreign tourists will come here on shopping trips and spend a fortune in the Thai malls (and hotels, restaurants etc.), instead of Thais saving all their money and spending it on hotels, restaurants and malls in Singapore?

    This not about "silly luxury taxes" (whatever they are), it's about import duty on items brought into the country, just like in every other country.

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  3. 11 minutes ago, jacko45k said:
    20 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

    A confession, in isolation, is not evidence, never mind "the best there is" as it can be retracted at any time, leaving the prosecution with no case.   No prosecutor will ever indict based on nothing more than just a confession.

     

    CCTV evidence of his being in the area, and nothing more, is not evidence of his attacking her.

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    But it is not 'in isolation' is it? There is evidence placing him at the scene. If he has confessed also, that is enough to hold him while a case is developed. He can be held for 48 hrs.  

    Your statement 'No prosecutor will ever indict based on nothing more than just a confession' cannot be supported. People have been executed based on confessions! 

    It is in isolation.  There may have been CCTV of him in the area but that is not evidence of his attacking the woman.   

     

    "Your statement 'No prosecutor will ever indict based on nothing more than just a confession' cannot be supported".

    Sorry, but it's a fact, that you don't agree does not mean it cannot be supported.  No prosecutor/AG would indict solely on an admission with no other evidence at all.

     

    "There is evidence placing him at the scene".

    Not exactly, there was CCTV of his vehicle being in the area, there has been no mention of his "being at the scene of the attack" specifically.   There may have been other people/vehicles seen in the area also, they are not being accused of the attack, are they?  My point being that someone's presence in the area is not evidence of their being the attacker.

     

    "People have been executed based on confessions!"

    I'm sure that you can name just one that has been indicted and executed based 100% on a confession and no other evidence whatsoever?

  4. 2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
    3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

    It's to do with evidence and the chances of getting a conviction if he pleaded not guilty. With apparently no evidence against him for the attack and no testimony from the woman, no prosecutor would indict him.

    What about his admission that he did it?

    What about it?   With nothing else, the case wouldn't get anywhere. He could just stand up in court and say, "no, I did not do it", and with no other evidence he'd be getting a taxi home.

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  5. Just now, jacko45k said:

    So you advocate releasing him on the premise he might retract his confession.... give him a chance to go get another one?

    No, I didn't say that, either.   

     

    If the police have nothing more than an initial admission in the police station, no empirical evidence against him and no testimony from the woman, then they have no case and no prosecutor would issue an indictment so there would no legal justification for the police to detain him.   It does not matter what you, me or anyone "feels" about him, prosecutors need to see evidence.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, jacko45k said:
    7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

    "They can catch you for DUI here Friday and keep you locked up until Monday when the courts open!"

    Only if they have evidence, something that has been stated as lacking in this woman's case.   Confessions can be retracted!

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    And was the video evidence of his vehicle withdrawn too? I did not hear that his confession was retracted.. did you? Set him free to perpetrate further violence on women seems to be supported here!

    You mean CCTV evidence of his vehicle just being in the area?   That's not evidence of an attack and sure wouldn't get an indictment from the AG's office without anything else.   

     

    You think that the police have evidence against him although they have stated that, without the woman's testimony, they haven't?

     

    I did not say that his admission had been retracted, I said that it could be, meaning that if he had, there would be no case against him, so far.

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  7. 13 minutes ago, JonnyF said:
    42 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

    With no other evidence, no, it would not be, it wouldn't even be enough for the prosecutor to issue an indictment, the case would not get to court without evidence.   

     

    What if he retracted his confession? 

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    The Burmese on Koh Tao retracted the confession. There was little to no evidence against them.

    There was enough evidence initially to get an indictment, something that does not happen with no evidence as in this case, so far.   And this case has not been closed.

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  8. 22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:
    4 hours ago, aussienam said:

    Why keystone cops? This is what happens nearly everywhere else in the world.  If there is insufficient evidence to lay charges then police have no choice.  Arbitrary detention of suspects attracts legal issues. Then then the public backflip and criticize police for holding people without enough evidence.  

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    They had a confession to this case and he admitted to previous crimes, yet still released him. You are way off track here! They can catch you for DUI here Friday and keep you locked up until Monday when the courts open! 

    "They can catch you for DUI here Friday and keep you locked up until Monday when the courts open!"

    Only if they have evidence, something that has been stated as lacking in this woman's case.   Confessions can be retracted!

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