Sorry for being so blunt but this was a sickening stomach turning episode,
What is the rate of acquitals in the Circuit Criminal Court in Kerry? very very high compared to most other circuits, other Juries in Ireland tend to be far less sympathetic to defendants, yet they convicted him here, the Judge gave him a seven year sentence, and specifically seared the priest who gave testimony as a character witness.
Gosh, I have worked in Dublin, New York, London, Tralee, Limerick, Russia and Belfast.
Everywhere is different but there are so many similarities that would make people in Kazan in Russia, Tralee in Ireland, and Belfast in Northern Ireland laugh ate the suggestion but smile in agreemnet wghen they examin the fundamental basic processes.
Many are the simlliarities in the legal systems, the same could also be said in Dublin and New York.
This smells.
Not in the way of short cuts and minor mistakes but in the way that a verdict reached by an impartial jury in a region ledgendary for acquittals and a sympathetic irish judge ( let's be real, the irish legal system is amongst the most lenient in the world when it comes to the sentencing of those convicted of criminal offences) is undermined by the virtual picketing if the court by local people and the insidious nature of the character evidence.
Obviously there are lots of grey areas and vague unreconcilled issues in every criminal case and of course many in this one, let's shine some of the hygienic light of public scrutiny on it.
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Yes I know it was a Listowel case but the court house theatrics were in Tralee.
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