Posted on 05/22/2013 4:11:18 PM PDT by kristinn
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Really. If this isn’t rivers of blood, I don’t know what is.
Has anyone else noticed that none of the British media has opened the comment section?
They never do with any news story reporting a criminal act, as under British contempt of court laws comments could be deemed to prejudice subsequent criminal proceedings.
Well, we can fix that, can't we?
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On the whole this benefits the prosecution rather than the defence in a criminal trial: since defence lawyers could otherwise claim that prejudicial comment published about a named defendant could affect his right to a fair trial. And in the case of online comments posted on a newspaper website, these are deemed to have been ‘published’ by the newspaper, even though it has no control over the content of the comment.
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