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Title: remember that Jock on Death Row? Post by: fearisthekey on August 10, 2007, 03:53:18 PM conviction overturned! Ship it!!!!!!!!!! Knew that lad were innocent.....
Title: Re: remember that Jock on Death Row? Post by: fearisthekey on August 10, 2007, 04:18:04 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6940847.stm
Just as well they didn't get round to pumping any potassium chloride into him! Whoops! When will they ever learn? Title: Re: remember that Jock on Death Row? Post by: scotty2hatty on August 10, 2007, 04:35:51 PM nice one. i believed he was innocent too, but god knows how.
read a bit of that article, am i right that he is getting released because he received poor representation in the initial trial? and not cos they now think he is innocent? Title: Re: remember that Jock on Death Row? Post by: fearisthekey on August 10, 2007, 04:39:40 PM nice one. i believed he was innocent too, but god knows how. Well, I think the grounds of the appeal were that he received inadequate representation during his original trial, which means that the conviction was unsafe. They rely on his conviction to show that he is guilty, he does not have to show that he is innocent.....read a bit of that article, am i right that he is getting released because he received poor representation in the initial trial? and not cos they now think he is innocent? |