Can you imagine how horrible the criticism of the DA would have been, had she not issued an arrest warrant and gotten Karr extradited, and had he refused the request for a DNA sample and fled instead? I think the DA did the right thing in assuming someone who confessed was guilty, and the right thing in dropping charges immediately after a false DNA test and interviews with Karr’s family ruled him out as being guilty. The press certainly created an international furor, but that is the press’s responsibility, not the DA’s.
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Can you imagine how horrible the criticism of the DA would have been, had she not issued an arrest warrant and gotten Karr extradited, and had he refused the request for a DNA sample and fled instead? Jeff he was in custody in Thailand. He wasn’t going anywhere. If he refuses the test, then extradite him. But this guy didn’t even fight extradition so it is not likely at all he’d have refused a DNA test. |
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uh Guys, Mr Karr was overseas, BECAUSE HE SKIPPED A TRIAL IN CALIFORNIA. So his arrest in Thailand ain’t all bad, nor is it based solely on his Jon Benet attachments. In CA he is wanted for Child Pornography AND for missing his trial date for Child Pornography. Mr Karr had a rendezvous with the US legal system in his future. |
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Lets remember he was in custody in Thailand. Had he gone through the system over there, he’d have been executed. His admission of guilt was him saying ’I can get appeal after appeal after appeal in the US - and then plead insanity - I just have to get out of HERE’. |
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uh Guys, Mr Karr was overseas, BECAUSE HE SKIPPED A TRIAL IN CALIFORNIA. Uh, not the point.
In custody in Thailand? Suspect admits to murder? Great ... request and do DNA test to see if admission is viable then extradite if necessary. If no match admission not viable, CA can have him.
Seems pretty basic to me.
Of course, not the way it went down and that is the point. |
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McQ
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Sooner or later William will be along to lament that there will be one more prisoner incarcerated in the United States. |
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but surely no DA would create an international furor without something more credible to fall back upon than a sexual predator’s word The DA didn’t make the furor, the press did. Since if Thailand was willing to extradite him, he was coming here anyway, there’s no reason for the man to be let to remain in Thai custody.
The 1st class trip to maximize his talkativeness seems strange to me, because with his confession if the DNA had matched, it would all be over.
But I think McQ has vastly overstated the DA’s culpability WRT to the MSM’s copious coverage, and to a much more modest degree overstated any undue credulity on her part WRT to the confession.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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Meagain-
I agree, I think this cat saw Thai justice and said "I need out, now!!!!".
He’d have confessed to Lacy Peterson and Nicole Simpson if he’d had to. |
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The report I heard this morning was in fact he did refuse the DNA test in Thailand. This left the DA with no option but to extradite him and obtain a search warrant for the DNA test on US soil. Without the warrant a forced DNA test could be thrown out of court should the DNA match. I heard this on MSNBC, so I’m not sure of the validity of the legal reasoning. But it sounded like the DA was put in the position of damned if I do, damned if I don’t. |
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Tom Perkins:The DA didn’t make the furor, the press did. No one said they did, Tom. In fact I said:The media frenzy was incredible, tiresome and unseemly - not that that is anything new. This isn’t about the media. I’m questioning the DA’s reasoning and methods, not the frenzy.
Max:The report I heard this morning was in fact he did refuse the DNA test in Thailand. If that’s true then indeed, that changes the perspective. If you have a link to that I’d appreciate it. |
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McQ, you quoted someone writing:"but surely no DA would create an international furor without something more credible to fall back upon than a sexual predator’s word" By which they meant the DA did create the furor. Feel free to disavow the explicit words of the quote.The report I heard this morning was in fact he did refuse the DNA test in Thailand. If that’s true then indeed, that changes the perspective.
Ummm...yeah.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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McQ, you quoted someone writing: Yeah, that’s "someone", not me ... take it up with them.Ummm...yeah. Ummm ... yeah: gotta link? |
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He’d have confessed to Lacy Peterson and Nicole Simpson if he’d had to. Hey looker - don’t give OJ any ideas... you know he’s STILL looking for the real killer. |
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Apparently the report Max heard today was in error:Lacy said the test had to be done in Boulder because investigators needed a swab from the suspect’s mouth. They had taken DNA samples in Thailand from cups and other places such as mailboxes and his bicycle but those sample couldn’t be used. Now what has to be determined is whether this is true or not. Not that they took DNA samples from him in Thailand, but that only tests in Boulder could be used.
On it’s face it seems a questionable claim. |
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He should get the death penalty for bringing all that Jon Benet hype back. Bloody Bastard. |
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"Yeah, that’s "someone", not me ... take it up with them." Hey, you quoted him without dispute. Did you mean that or not?"Ummm ... yeah: gotta link?" No. I was agreeing it would change things.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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Tom Perkins
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So will the cable TV outfits go out and find a new missing pretty white girl to satiate the bon-bon munching housewived with National Enquirer minds and ChinaMart shopping demographics the ratings folks crave?
Surely a new pretty white girl has died SOMEWHERE in a "mystery" since Natalie Holoway and her camera-friendly mother, Beth The MILF, had a year of it?? Even with a little "cruise ship mystery" thrown in.
Or now are we in a new phase of recycling pretty dead white girls for ratings?
Will we get Gary & Chandra, 6 years afterwards, what REALLY happened???? Enquiring minds want to know...
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Lacy says that she had to move quickly to prevent Karr from harming his Thai students, but Karr could have been quietly arrested and extradited on the California warrant. This would have preventing him from harming Thai children and kept him in custody while his story was investigated without creating a huge media hurricane. |
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Has anyone ever said whether or not this woman is a Democrat or a Republican? Knowing Boulder’s politics (my friend lives there, and she is liberal beyond reason), my bet is that this woman is a Democrat.
And since she is a Democrat who f*cked up, she gets a pass. Now if she were a Republican, you would see the nooses and the lynching parties out right about now... |
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Alexander Alt
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Yep, she’s a Dem. But term limits will force her out of office in the next election. |
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