Thursday, February 19, 2009

Noone can discuss a named suspect

In Australia, if a suspect is named, and his State given, and the details of his crime (town it occurred in etc), no-one can discuss the details, if the court says "supress". Not the press, not personally. You can't even say "I live next door to him" Or "I went to school with him".

This is from an old law (Aristotle's time?) that assumed a potential juror in the next village would not have access to personal details about the suspect, unless it was from a newspaper or radio. These "virgins" were then deemed pure enough to be on a jury. In the age of the Internet, well, st00pid.

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