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"...the lower court failed to split up decisions about guilt and whether Gonzalez should get a harsher penalty for gang involvement..."

"...saying the district court abused its discretion by not answering a jury question about a conspiracy charge..."

Neither one of these two items have anything at all to do with a fair trail and his guilt. A prime example of the US justice system getting bogged down in unimportant minutiae. What a complete waste of time and money.

"...wished the Thai people success and that their minds will be filled with intelligence..."

...Not likely with this educational system.

This story might have held together a little more if the reporter had bothered to say WHERE he was found and in WHAT condition. Very few reporters in this country are trained to ask the right questions.

RIP

...another victim of the Thailand.tourist death mill.

Sounds like another country I know.

The government would have drug it's feet in granting permission for the protest or just outright denied permission. And this was a time sensitive protest. It had to take place within one or two days of the ridiculous verdict.

Sorry Dr Surin Pitsuwan, no one in Thailand is any longer allowed to contest for any position that has the word "Democrat" in it as no one has successfully proven to understand Democracy. We are in the stages of developing a Democratic test to prove politicians actually understand this fairly simple concept.

100's...no, 1000's of people dying on the roads of Thailand, people being shot in jealous rages by jealous boyfriends, drugs being dealt and used everywhere and this is what they choose to spend their time and focus on.

Typical.

Putin -> nothing but a thug with a license to kill and an army to back him up. The scariest kind of bad guy.

Old boys club in that picture. The only thing missing are the big fat stogies.

"This is nothing but an attempt to drag out the case," he said, adding that the military-led regime was tired of her moves.

So what! Anyone of the people in power now would be doing the exact same thing if it were them up on these ridiculous charges. Who wouldn't be deeply concerned with a thoroughly biased government and court system as demonstration by all the red shirts put in jail and nary a yellow seeing a day of jail. She may have had bad judgement with this rice scheme, but that is all she can be accused of and that is not a jail-able offense. The junta is just looking to bury the red shirts and she is the only prime Thaksin symbol they can get at.

We've seen how far this government will go to get what they want in the recent Koh Tao murder case. Wouldn't you be afraid knowing there is no justice in Thailand these days?

Phenomenal article!

It goes further than many other articles and even comments by many posters. I won't be a bit surprised if the junta goes ballistic over this article. I won't be a bit surprised if they try to hunt down the author and do a lot more than take him or her for an attitude adjustment. And I will bet the Nation comes under fire.

I applaud the author for writing it, I applaud the "The Nation" for publishing it and I applaud ThaiVisa for reprinting it.

Thank heaven for people still willing to stand-up for TRUTH!

600?

Drop in a barrel.

No, drop in an ocean!

Once they find the owner they need to stick him or her in a cage with two other dogs just like these two that are now dead.

Or otherwise, fry the owner in some very appropriate way.

Never heard of nasal inhaler promoting alertness.

1. Is there any medical support for this or 2. is it just another official crackpot idea ?

Option number #2. Only in Thailand.

Just someone's special order dinner that got loose. The flight attendant did not follow the cooking instructions as instructed.

Finally, one of my pet peeves being addressed, however, I'll bet it will be easy to find people without electricity in 2020 and beyond.

Next up, universal garbage collection. Stop the burning of toxic materials in rural Thailand and even in Pattaya across from my townhouse.

Careful, no one tells the NCPO what to do. A request can be looked at by the NCPO as a demand...careful NRSA and all other acronyms.

"...because of a Mexican judge's decision to delay his deportation..."

Maybe the Mexican government should check to see if this judge has become "unusually rich" recently. I understand the family has money to burn. Or maybe it's Mexico just wanting to stick it to the US because they love us so much.

My heart bleeds for them........................NAH! just joking.

Assuming every one of them is guilty then I could care less.

It's an exciting time and will, hopefully, allow Thailand to prosper and grow and become a leader in the region. Let's hope we can grasp the opportunity and move Thailand forward into the 21st Century. I hope it works out.

Everything you say would be true if Thailand were being run by a truly Democratic government that had the best interests of the people (ALL THAI PEOPLE) at heart. Unfortunately, a Democratic government it still a long way off, so I think it will be quite some time before Thailand can actually join the ASEAN community completely.

I for one just don't believe everybody that comes off a building from a high floor is suicide and yet I don't remember any jumper in the last few year that has been determined to be anything other than suicide or an accident only because there were actually witnesses. Look at these two statements.

"...There were no signs of a struggle..."

"...but on the balcony, a small table was upside-down and many cigarette butts were seen on the floor..."

I have to ask why someone would turn a table upside down before jumping. Seems the top of the table is more stable to stand on than the bottom of that table. And the table was obviously turned upside down with zero regard to making a mess, thus the cigarette butts all over the floor. It would seem to have been done quickly or in anger. That description could easily have been the result of a struggle. That's just the way I see it given the limited facts presented and I'm fairly certain the reporter was trying to make that connection by using the word "but" after the word "struggle".

R.I.P. young man.

Outcome as expected.

So is the NACC going to investigate anything about this park controversy or is it over and done?

The British public are ignorant and rightly so. The police and politicians ARE NOT ignorant, they are just selling the two young Burmese down the road for the expedient of good relations with Thailand. The British police agencies, without doubt, know these two young men got a very raw deal. They also know this case would have never made it to court in Britain if handled the same way as it was in Thailand.

The general British public know nothing about Thailand with it's rampant corruption and lack of justice, unlike the British Expat. To be fair, I would say this about any western country given that most people who do not live here know nothing about Thailand and many people outside Thailand were not following this case like we Expats were..

When it comes to the families of the two young British backpackers, well I can only imagine they were brainwashed by people they trust in their own government and their law enforcement agencies. There are a lot of good police in Britain going home at night and shaking their heads in disgust at their top-level management and their politicians.

There is no way that was an accident unless the missile malfunctioned.

The Iranians have good enough radar and guidance systems to send their missiles exactly where they intend to send them. They knew the two US ships and another coalition ship were there and they intentionally fired the rocket as a near miss. No question in my mind unless there was a malfunction.

Too little, too late. This doesn't even scratch the surface of what needs to be done with gun control.

Good. People need to see the reality of ISIS.

The more real it gets for many people, hopefully the more some minds of bleeding heart liberals that don't want to fight against ISIS will start to change.