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Tuesday 28 October 2008
Wullie Beck Sent Jurors names and addresses Daily Mail 27 October 2008
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Wullie Beck Case: Legal Blunder sparks Security Alert OutRage. The Sun, 27 October 2008
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Wednesday 22 October 2008
Send Cards to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the murder of 270 people by blowing up an airliner over the town almost 20 years ago, is understood to have been given weeks to live by doctors, after hospital tests confirmed he had "advanced stage" prostate cancer.
Prisoners thought to have less than three months to live in Scotland can apply for early release on compassionate grounds.
The families of British casualties called on ministers to release Megrahi if that – as seems likely – proves to be his wish.
Megrahi is awaiting his second appeal against his conviction.
Dr Swire, who is a spokesman for the UK Families Flight 103 group, also called for Megrahi's appeal to be speeded up.
He said: "I feel it is a very serious threat to his life and it would be a tragedy if he is to spend the rest of his life in a Scottish prison, particularly if he is not guilty of the crime of which he was found guilty. I'm not satisfied that the verdict against him is correct. It sounds to me like an unfolding human tragedy."
So many of us wordlwide believe that Al Megrahi has been wrongfully convicted and therefor should be released while he is so sick and still waiting on the outcome of his appeal.
Please send cards DIRECTLY to Al Megraghi and also write, fax or email Alex Salmond and also Kenny McAskill asking them to free this man on compassionate grounds. The Glasgow Two recieved Interim Liberation while awaiting their appeal. The same should happen in this case.
See http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/
For more information on this case.
PLEASE ALSO PASS THIS AROUND!
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
HMP Greenock
Gateside
GREENOCK
PA16 9AH
Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 01467 670070
Fax: 01779 474460
Parliament Office E-mail:
Alex.Salmond.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Kenny MacAskill MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 0131 661 9546
Telephone: 0131 348 5012
Fax: 0131 348 5944
Parliament Office E-mail:
Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Oh, Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." - Old Indian Prayer
http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/forum.htm
Prisoners thought to have less than three months to live in Scotland can apply for early release on compassionate grounds.
The families of British casualties called on ministers to release Megrahi if that – as seems likely – proves to be his wish.
Megrahi is awaiting his second appeal against his conviction.
Dr Swire, who is a spokesman for the UK Families Flight 103 group, also called for Megrahi's appeal to be speeded up.
He said: "I feel it is a very serious threat to his life and it would be a tragedy if he is to spend the rest of his life in a Scottish prison, particularly if he is not guilty of the crime of which he was found guilty. I'm not satisfied that the verdict against him is correct. It sounds to me like an unfolding human tragedy."
So many of us wordlwide believe that Al Megrahi has been wrongfully convicted and therefor should be released while he is so sick and still waiting on the outcome of his appeal.
Please send cards DIRECTLY to Al Megraghi and also write, fax or email Alex Salmond and also Kenny McAskill asking them to free this man on compassionate grounds. The Glasgow Two recieved Interim Liberation while awaiting their appeal. The same should happen in this case.
See http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/
For more information on this case.
PLEASE ALSO PASS THIS AROUND!
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
HMP Greenock
Gateside
GREENOCK
PA16 9AH
Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 01467 670070
Fax: 01779 474460
Parliament Office E-mail:
Alex.Salmond.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Kenny MacAskill MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 0131 661 9546
Telephone: 0131 348 5012
Fax: 0131 348 5944
Parliament Office E-mail:
Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Oh, Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." - Old Indian Prayer
http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/forum.htm
Saturday 13 September 2008
What is a Miscarriage of Justice?
A miscarriage of justice is primarily the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime that he or she did not commit. The term can also be applied to errors in the other direction – "errors of impunity" – and to civil cases, but those usages are rarer, though the occurrences appear to be much more common. Most criminal justice systems have some means to overturn, or "quash", a wrongful conviction, but this is often difficult to achieve. The most serious instances occur when a wrongful conviction is not overturned for several years, or until after the innocent person has been executed or died in jail.
"Miscarriage of justice" is sometimes synonymous with wrongful conviction, referring to a conviction reached in an unfair or disputed trial. Wrongful convictions are frequently cited by death penalty opponents as cause to eliminate death penalties to avoid executing innocent persons. In recent years, DNA evidence has been used to clear many people falsely convicted.
Scandinavian languages have a word, the Norwegian variant of which is justismord, which is literally translated "justice murder". The term exists in several languages and was originally used for cases where the accused was convicted, executed, and later cleared after death. With capital punishment decreasing, the expression has acquired an extended meaning, namely any conviction of a person of a crime he/she did not commit. The retention of the term "murder" both demonstrates universal abhorrence against wrongful convictions and awareness of how destructive wrongful convictions are.
Causes of miscarriages of justice include:
* confirmation bias on the part of investigators
* withholding or destruction of evidence by police or prosecution
* fabrication of evidence
* biased editing of evidence
* poor identification by witnesses and/or victims
* overestimation/underestimation of the evidential value of expert testimony
* contaminated evidence
* faulty forensic tests
* false confessions due to police pressure or psychological weakness
* misdirection of a jury by a judge during trial
* perjured evidence by the real guilty party or their accomplices (frameup)
* perjured evidence by the supposed victim or their accomplices
Even when a wrongly-convicted person is not executed, spending years in prison often has an effect on the person and their family that is irreversible and substantial. The risk of miscarriage of justice is thereby also a reasonable argument against long sentences, like life sentence, and cruel sentence conditions.
"Miscarriage of justice" is sometimes synonymous with wrongful conviction, referring to a conviction reached in an unfair or disputed trial. Wrongful convictions are frequently cited by death penalty opponents as cause to eliminate death penalties to avoid executing innocent persons. In recent years, DNA evidence has been used to clear many people falsely convicted.
Scandinavian languages have a word, the Norwegian variant of which is justismord, which is literally translated "justice murder". The term exists in several languages and was originally used for cases where the accused was convicted, executed, and later cleared after death. With capital punishment decreasing, the expression has acquired an extended meaning, namely any conviction of a person of a crime he/she did not commit. The retention of the term "murder" both demonstrates universal abhorrence against wrongful convictions and awareness of how destructive wrongful convictions are.
Causes of miscarriages of justice include:
* confirmation bias on the part of investigators
* withholding or destruction of evidence by police or prosecution
* fabrication of evidence
* biased editing of evidence
* poor identification by witnesses and/or victims
* overestimation/underestimation of the evidential value of expert testimony
* contaminated evidence
* faulty forensic tests
* false confessions due to police pressure or psychological weakness
* misdirection of a jury by a judge during trial
* perjured evidence by the real guilty party or their accomplices (frameup)
* perjured evidence by the supposed victim or their accomplices
Even when a wrongly-convicted person is not executed, spending years in prison often has an effect on the person and their family that is irreversible and substantial. The risk of miscarriage of justice is thereby also a reasonable argument against long sentences, like life sentence, and cruel sentence conditions.
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