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Originally Posted by Brother Love
You be rit Pastor Pistle but they is one person who can do somethin bouts him and that be the LORD JESUS. Jesus goin to get this family KILLER!!
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HE can and HE has most surely alreadt sent dispatch to hell for the reception of a certain OJ niga, BUT....
There is another who can do something!
George W. Bush
If his influence has taken what was, at the start, a quasi-cat-a-lick homer comunist like Tommy Blair into Iraq and into making a MAJOR IMPROVEMENT in UK's Common Law.
He can do it in the glorious U.S.A.
Under English common law, there is an absolute prohibition on a second trial after an acquittal. This was initially brought in to protect those who were subject to both canon law and temporal law.
This strict common law double jeopardy rule in England was first qualified by the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 [2], under which the prosecution can appeal an acquittal on grounds that witnesses or the jury were intimidated. However, the Act has never been used to seek a retrial.[3]
The MacPherson Report following the murder of Stephen Lawrence suggested that double jeopardy should be abrogated where "fresh and viable" new evidence came to light, and the Law Commission recommended in 2001 that it should be possible to subject an acquitted murder suspect to a second trial. The Parliament of the United Kingdom implemented these recommendations by passing the Criminal Justice Act 2003 [4], introduced by then Home Secretary David Blunkett. Under the 2003 Act, retrials are now allowed if there is "new" and "compelling" evidence for crimes, including murder, but also manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, and serious drugs crimes. All cases must be approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Court Of Appeal must agree to quash the original acquittal.[5]
The double jeopardy provisions of the 2003 Act came into force in April 2005.[6] On 11 September 2006, William Dunlop became the first person to be convicted of murder after previously being acquitted. Twice he was tried for the murder of Julie Hogg in Billingham in 1989, but two juries failed to reach a verdict and he was formally acquitted in 1991. Some years later, he confessed to the crime, and was convicted of perjury. The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial.[7] [8] [9]
William Dunlop was re-tried and lodged a guilty plea, for the murder of Julie Hogg and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation he serve no less than 17 years.[10].
PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS NEW HOPE!