Category: Pickton Murder Trial
Defense Continues to Belabour the Point
| 2/2/2007 | Posted by Patti under Pickton Murder Trial |
Once again yesterday, the defense at Pickton’s trial continued to parse and dissect the 11 hours of police interviews with Pickton. It appears if there is any point to Peter Ritchie’s (defense lawyer) minute questioning that it is likely that he’s trying to present a picture of an intellectually slow defendant being taken advantage of by the RCMP.
From the reports of the video of the interviews, Pickton might not be the brightest bulb in the bundle but he’s far from short circuited. You don’t need much intellect to figure out that it is wrong to pick up women and murder them.Â
So, the Cop Interviewing Pickton Lied?
| 2/1/2007 | Posted by Patti under Pickton Murder Trial |
It appears the last day or so of the Pickton trial has had a lot of focus on whether the cops who interviewed him during those eleven hours that the jury watched last week lied to the suspect. Actually, if they were lies, misstatements, exaggerations, implicaton or misleading seems to be under examination by the defense.
I must be missing something here. I’ve never heard where a court has thrown a case out because a police interrogator has applied pressure to attempt ot extract the truth from a suspect. Planting and/or fabricating evidence can get that but telling a suspect that your mother died of cancer to create commonality isn’t going to get tossed. So, what’s the defense’s point?
If the police had behaved improperly during the taped interviews, the court would have not ruled the evidence admissable. The court did admit the evidence, so the procedure is not in question.
The purpose of the interviews and this trial is to determine if his client has lied, murdered, raped, mutilated or whatever. Actually it is trying to determine if he’s murdered the six women he’s charged with doing so. With the shear volume of murder charges this guy is facing, charges for the other indecent acts seem trivial.
In the course of the investigation there was reportedly over 400,000 DNA swabs taken from the Pickton farm which was literally excavated in an effort to be thorough in finding all of the victims and evidence of how they met their deaths.
It makes me wonder if the same amount of resources were expended in an effort to reach out to the people who frequent the Lower Eastside and help them up into the mainstream of society would the killer, be it Pickton or another, even found a hunting ground?
Coulda, shoulda, woulda… it will kill ya man.
Pickton Trial Underway
| 1/25/2007 | Posted by Patti under Canadian News, Pickton Murder Trial |
In British Columbia the murder trial of Robert Pickton is now underway. If eventually convicted of all the charges against him, he will be Canada’s worst serial killer. Currently on trial for the murder of six women is currently charged with the murder of 26 women and as the investigation continues in other missing woman, it is possible the number of charges could still grow. The current trial is expected to last up to a year.
The missing and confirmed murdered women came from what is known as the Lower Eastside in Vancouver. Largely populated by addicts and prostitutes it in a sense provides a hunting ground for human predators. Many have raised the image that these people are throw away people and the police make little to no effort to investigate people missing from that area.
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