Long jail terms handed down to principal defendants in Karaoke girl's murder and mutilation

[djayz]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

I wonder if they'll still be able to ply their trades while in prison....

 

They're survivors - that's the ONLY thing they know how to do. They'll survive prison and live slightly better than others - maybe even becoming celebrities within the prison community. 

 

 

[Huayrat]

On 5/10/2018 at 9:47 PM, scorecard said:

 

And good news, they weren't released on bail pending an appeal!

Only because they Don't have money to buy themselves out.. Rich ppl don't go to prison for murder, Red bull boy and Koh Tao real killers of the british couple..

[Just Weird]

15 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The appeals process here is bizarre.

 

It's one thing for a higher court to order some modification of a sentence, or even to order a lower court to reconsider some detail or even order a new trial if some serious mistake was made during the original hearings.

 

But here, the lower court finds someone guilty, the appeals court agrees they're guilty, and then the Supreme Court years later comes along and declares them totally innocent. Or the reverse, the lower courts find them innocent, and then the high court comes along and finds them guilty. 180 degree opposite decisions, not just adjustments or tinkering with legal details.

 

You kinda have to wonder, what the heck is going on?

 

That's no different from any other legal system of Appeals!  That's what the higher courts are for.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

26 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

That's no different from any other legal system of Appeals!  That's what the higher courts are for.

 

No, in civilized countries, in the criminal systems, the courts rarely make those kinds of 180-degree reverses.... unless some new evidence surfaces or some witnesses are found to have recanted, etc etc.

 

And if the higher court does disagree about some aspect of a criminal proceeding, it's usually sent back to the lower court for the judge(s) there to reconsider whatever the problem issue might have been.  Most of the time, the courts don't simply engage in opposite judgments about guilt vs innocence.