Comments on: Justice For All?

By: Judge and Jury – Fair Process Anyone? at diversity.net.nz

Judge and Jury – Fair Process Anyone? at diversity.net.nz — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:15:49 +0000

[...] posted a few weeks ago about the Clayton Weatherston trial – that post garnered a number of comments, [...]

By: Paul Lattimore

Paul Lattimore — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:09:05 +0000

Two words. One bullet.

By: Davidain

Davidain — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:50:05 +0000

THANK GOODNESS THE BASTARDS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER… LIKE THE SCUM HE IS!!!!

By: Davidain

Davidain — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:51:33 +0000

If someone with a KNIFE! Killed somebody by stabbing them 200 times in there private parts, chest area and gets kicks out of cutting off her titties LIKE Clayton Weatherston did!!! Deserves a Bullet to the Back of the skull!! Your dead right William Clayton is a sick individual! LIKE a sick Dog!! Farmers shoot Dogs that are sick! Clayton Weatherston is one such sick chappy and needs a good bullet! or Better still! Have his privates mutillated and tittes cut off with a pair of snips before Stabbing his chest 200+ times. That would cheer me up! And the General Public!

By: William Hughes-Games

William Hughes-Games — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:54:52 +0000

Anyone who stabs his girlfriend over 200 times should not be found guilty of murder or even manslaughter. He is obviously highly unstable and highly dangerous. He should be found innocent and then locked away for life (no parol) (none what so ever) for the protection of anyone else that would otherwise be endangered by him in the future.

By: Davidain

Davidain — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:10:53 +0000

Look we would be doing this country a favour by putting a bullet between the eyes of this scum bag!, Why should we let him become a member of nz`s most controversial club (the Nz prisons). Inmates have underfloor heating (I should know i built two of the bloody things Ngawha, and Springhill), Playstation, Access to cellphones, the BROS ” sneaking in drugs” Roast meals every sunday, Out houses where lady friends can come and spend quality time. ALL funded by hard working HUAS like you and me. So yes I agree with Marc! And even if we couldnt bullet the HUA Just wish our corrections sytem was setup the same way as JOE Arpaio http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=2244807285 Bastards would think twice about there actions!

By: david

david — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:46:38 +0000

Marc – not sure if they still do, but when I lived in China they sent the nearest living relative the cost of the bullet.

I cannot agree more on Ben’s original post and some of the similar sentiments expressed here.

By: Krish

Krish — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:55:51 +0000

The philosophy behind any saner justice system should be “any number of criminals can get away without punishment but not even one innocent person should be punished wrongly”. The money spent on this case may be the price (let us call it tax) we pay for being a civilized society. Otherwise, we could have stayed in the cannibal age itself.

The justice system should be the same if there was one stab or 1 million stab because then the question of where you draw the line complicates the issue. For you 216 stabs may be an open and shut case and for another person, just a single stab or even a scratch could be an open and shut case. If you justify the 216 case, how can you not accept the justification for a scratch case or 1 stab case? Where do you draw a line.

There is a reason why judicial process is painfully slow and expensive in civilized countries. Otherwise, we have to treat cannibal system or China or Iran or Bush to be right. My 2 cents.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:07:55 +0000

I agree that a trial is needed to ensure that our justice system remains fair. I also agree that Weatherston is wasting our time and money by producing such a farcical defense. It simply demonstrates to anyone who might not already have decided that he is a self-obsessed idiot with an over inflated sense of his own importance and superiority. The fact he took the knife with him would make me reject the “manslaughter” defence – this was as pre-meditated as they come. In my mind his legal team needs their legal aid fee reducing as they have shown contempt for the system by allowing (and no doubt encouraging him) to pursue such a line of defence. The public will show their opinion when the jury takes all of 20 minutes to reach a verdict, most of that time spent going to the bathroom and getting a coffee.

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:07:23 +0000

We are hearing about the defending case because its their turn, what else can the defense feasibly come up with? The “crazy” reasoning is all they have. I would speculate that the jury is about as sympathetic as the public is, which is not at all. So I’m not worried that this guy will get off, or get anything less than life. On another note, i would absolutely agree with Glen, if we have the right to distinguish who is entitled to a fair trial and who isn’t then we would be living in a society not dissimilar to the dark ages.