Comments on: Where is common sense? http://www.joewhite.com/2006/08/29/where-is-common-sense/ The occasional writings of a questionable mind. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:45:28 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mojo http://www.joewhite.com/2006/08/29/where-is-common-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Mojo Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:17:14 +0000 http://www.joewhite.com/2006/08/29/where-is-common-sense/#comment-819 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. 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.

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