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Double Miscarriage of Justice?
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Tuesday September 08, 2009 21:15 by I. Greene
By all accounts it appears that members of the Gardai were not truthful in their dealings throughout Michael McKevitt’s case. The latest conflicting evidence between two senior Garda officers certainly warrant an immediate investigation to identify if flawed evidence also contaminated the civil case in Belfast, resulting in a double miscarriage of justice. Not surprisingly, both sides in the Omagh civil case have appealed the outcome. The yearlong case returned a result, which favoured the plaintiffs and found that four of the defendants were liable. The evidence used against the four men was highly questionable and certainly not convincing. Several aspects of the case left too many questions unanswered and the judgment didn’t resemble anything that could be described as closure. By any stretch of the imagination, due process was not the winner in this case and it was left entirely tainted and unfinished. While civil cases require lower standards of proof [58%], the evidence throughout this particular case came in well short of the required standard. When the judgment was read out the Plaintiffs’ in the case were relieved, it was a result that they had not been confident of securing, their spokesperson said afterwards to the waiting media. This was a good indication of how unconvincing the entire case unfolded. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2If we are to have any faith in the legal system it must opperate within the realm of evidence based testimony which can stand up under cross examination. This is surely not the case here.
With all due regard to the victims here, Im sure that the continnuation of an inquiry into the perpetrators is far more productive than closing a case on dubious evidence.
The Stardust tribunal was proven to be a fraud, -27 years later. Guilford 4 and Birmingham 6 also. The Maguire 7...the list of injustices is endless.And id say it wont change.
Wether Mckevitt deserves what he got or not is not connected to the injustice carried out in court. Guilty men walk free because courts were over zealous in their desire to find the accused guilty, this undermines the legal system . The presumption of innocence must prevail until proven guilty....this is the only legislation which prevents us returning to barbarianism.
Look at Guantanamo......Lord Huttons internment.......Diplock courts......
The Pitstop plowshares (US Military plane disarmament carried out in Shannon airport) trials were wrought with corrupt judges forcing their version of the law upon the accused. When they finally got a fair trial.......they were acquitted....unanimously.
One Judge praised impartiality of the jurors while the Judge himself held a secret which later revealed that he had been invited to GW Bushes inaurgeration in 2000 and had pictures taken with him , and again in 2005.
Mary Kellys trials were fraught with inconsistent rhetoric and rulings based on wishful outcomes rather than on law....
The other Shannon court cases showed miscarriages of justice galore.
Now, the court cases against the activists in Rosport are severly flawed in favour of the perpetrators involved in the greed and robbing of 560 billion € worth of gas belonging to t the people of this Island.....
The law courts cannot be trusted, especially in the case of State corruption.....