> The coroner is only involved if the doctor refuses to sign the
> death certificate. Wasn't she being treated by a GP?

JT> She was in hospital for about two weeks before she died.
JT> (originally went in for lungs full of fluid)

 And th hopital registrar wouldn't sign the Death Certificate? Weird.

> If *I* came home to my braindead but usually harmless uncle and
> caught him masturbating for my young kids, I'd do exactly what
> the mother did and beat the living shit out of him. Actually, I'm
> not as nice a person as the mother... I'd have dumped to old
> bastard long since, and I'd like to think that when the cops
> arrived, I'd have my lawyer waiting for them and say absolutely
> *NOTHING*; let them try to make their case without evidence, and
> then tell a carefully-rehearsed cock-and-bull story for the first
> time in court. 

JT> How do you explain the wheely bin then?

 The beauty of our stupid law is that you do not have to explain
anything. It's for you to know and them to find out your story when
you finally get to court. The reality is that anything you say to a
cop can only hurt you. Take the example of Lindy Chamberlain and the
Pommie gorl with the vanished boyfriend... both in the Northern
Territory. Lindy talked her way into prison and the Pommie said
nothing without her lawyer, and *nothing at all* to the papers. They
were equally unlikely stories (a dingo took my baby; a mysterious
stranger took my boyfriend), but the outcomes were different. One did
five years, the other walked and sold her story later.

 Our law is set up to protect the guilty. An innocent will try hard
to explain their innocence, the guilty knows to keep his mouth shut
until a lawyer can rehearse a good story for him.

JT> Yeah, but you're only appeasing the media frenzy, where someone
JT> has to get blamed.

 If you say nothing, who can the media quote? Australian libel laws
are brilliant! You can make real money out of the Media. Take the case
of the swimming coach and the girl-bitch. They're fighting it in the
Media, and the Media is freed of libel so long as they only quote each
in turn. Guilty or not, the coach should have sued the bitch for
defamation, and that chops it off, dead. If Ray Martin opens his
mouth, you're on $100,000 from Kerry Packer whether what he says is
true or not! I wish someone would accuse me of something...

 Can you remember Neville Wran. He *always* sued, and over twenty
years he ended up three-million in front - a nice little earner.
Scientology is the same. My favourite with Nev was the time a paper
accused him of using the Law to make money... and he sued them! And
won...

> The law is supposed to protect the law-abiding. It has no other
> purpose.

JT> No, sadly, the law has nothing to do with justice. It's just
JT> about minimising your losses. That is, do you stand to loose
JT> less by going to court or not?

 Justice? That's not the purpose of Law. Law is meant to prevent us
taking the law into our *own* hands to get justice. It's meant to keep
things orderly... and protect the law-abiding. In fact, it does not do
that at all. It protects those able to hire good lawyers, who then
manipulate the system to their client's advantage.

Regards,
Bob


   

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