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The country is broken because the system is fixed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Seen on a T-shirt of Occupy Wall Street protester on Bill Moyers,7 PM, Fri, Mar 2, 2012.
\nSecond topic: Gabe Watson the Honeymoon Killer, was featured on “20\/20” (ABC, 10 PM Fri, Mar 2, 2012).\u00a0 The newlywed couple went on their honeymoon to Australia and went on a scuba diving expedition.\u00a0 At 50 feet down, she began to sink deeper, and Gabe failed to help her.\u00a0 The Australian legal system has an obscure law, negligent manslaughter, to which he pleaded guilty. and served 18 months in prison.<\/p>\nHe got out of prison and came back to the U.S., where the state of Alabama arrested him for manslaughter.\u00a0 The prosecutor claimed the motive was to collect her life insurance.\u00a0 It so happened that the beneficiary of the life insurance was not Gabe, and it was for only $35,000 dollars.\u00a0 Gabe had spent $10,000 on the diving honeymoon, and $3,500 for her wedding ring.<\/p>\n
The judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence.\u00a0 More can be found about Watson here<\/a> or just do a search for honeymoon killer.<\/p>\n
I cannot understand how this came to trial here in the U.S.\u00a0 First off, he was convicted and served his sentence in Australia, so retrying him in the U.S. is a violation of the Fifth Amendment prohibition against being tried twice for the same crime.\u00a0 Second, the crime occurred in Australia, so the U.S. legal system does\u00a0 not have jurisdiction over the crime.<\/p>\n
But the newsmedia has had a field day with this one, at the expense of Gabe Watson.\u00a0 It seems to me that he will never be free of the stigma of something that he claimed was an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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