Tue 29 Aug 2006
Where is common sense?
Posted by Joe White under Random News, Thoughts
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I never followed the JonBenet Ramsey case, but when this guy claimed to be the killer, why didn’t they just take a swab while he was in Thailand and check his DNA before going to the huge expense of bringing him to Colorado?
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August 30th, 2006 at 11:17 am
1) DNA tests administered by a foreign government and/or on foreign soil? Almost guaranteed to be inadmissible on a number of grounds.
2) The State of California wants a piece of him. He’s back in CA on child porn charges even now. What’s going to happen to him in the California penal system is going to be ugly, very ugly indeed.
3) Defense strategy: he was also facing child porn charges in Thailand. It may have all been a huge contrivance to get him out of the Thai legal system and into the American one, where he may yet still be acquitted.
4) Media frenzy: the Boulder DA is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. She can legitimatly claim that she was assisting California in their case by making the case for Karr’s repatriation (which might not have happened if based solely on California’s claims). Still, once the media circus started, she had to follow through. She’s still going to go through the wringer on this, however.