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i like cold weather so that wouldn’t be a problem.

off topic but i've been staying in ballarat this week. aside from the recent murders / disappearances, it's a particularly nice town, especially around the lake, hospital and station. could live here pretty easily.

this crossed my mind as well. a 20k run, come home and straight into the shower could be a fairly decent cover if the speculation in this thread is to be believed.

there’s a specific rule about conversing with witnesses under cross-examination. talking with her boyfriend and court companion about what she “should” say to specific lines of questioning while the cross was underway in a public hotel bar - loud enough so a member of the public can both hear...

the appeal would have to have some strong prospects, particularly with a fresh team. again i think he probably did it - and is a complete moron who got lucky for a long time - but the whole thing is very strange. he must be regretting the stupid phone call stories. far better story would...

righto champ.

it’s ridiculous that he hasn’t given the verdict at the outset and then explained his reasoning.

that was the crux of the inquest. agree it sounds from the podcast that the defence haven’t done an amazing job. but they don’t need to prove he didn’t do it. going judge alone seems like a very smart decision.

what do people think the verdict will be? i’ll guess not guilty as fishy as this all is.

nothing says crazy like a dispute over a fence

you wonder whether this 61 year old American teacher also doing 14 years for cannabis possession in russia (who nobody has heard of or cares about given he doesn’t play basketball) will be included in any deal. or even get any publicity...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/12/patricia-spottedcrow-marijuana-year-sentence/ harsh and disproportionate sentences exist even in the us. you’d be disappointed if they swap some genuine bad dudes for her - as unjust as her sentence may be.

might’ve been a good argument to run, but unless she was definitely going to top herself he would’ve still had to deal with the property settlement.

without him there probably isn’t a court case. though i agree he has a white knight complex and isn’t capable of being impartial.

listener to this over the last few days. it’s well done but certainly lacks objectivity and is proceeding on the basis that he is guilty. a prime example of this is being critical of the brothers saying “wish they had interviewed us 17 years ago while the details were fresh in our memories”...

when he wises up and asks for it back you just pay him from a new “investor’s” money. i’m sure that was the plan. funny this got brought down by someone who wasn’t even invested.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSC//2021/182.html hope we see the supervisor in prison - haven’t looked into the charges he’s facing but this is enough for me to form that view

without having seen the evidence, it is impossible to know.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/justice-is-blind-in-the-case-of-christian-porter-and-so-it-should-be-20210304-p577r7.html this is a fairly good article that largely reflects my views - including that there should be an inquest but not a de facto trial

also be a bit of a worry to have a murder conviction without a dead victim.

as i said earlier in this thread i know people who have told me, and i believe, have been raped. both of them never made a complaint to police. even SHY states there is no prospect of a criminal prosecution given the death of the alleged victim in this case.

the cctv and the killer turning himself in might have played a part too.

and the the small matter of the alleged rape?

ok i give up

difficult to reconcile with

hypothetically, how would he definitively prove his innocence here?

the difference here is the accuser gives evidence and is cross examined so that the accuser can test their evidence. given the accuser is dead (as well as >30 years having passed) here the accused will never have the opportunity which, as you acknowledge, is why there will never be a prosecution.

point me to an example of a high up boss having an inquiry into something they are alleged to have done at 18, >30 years after the fact where there is no connection to the workplace and with a complainant that is dead. i’ll wait.

how would it test the evidence? the only reasonable conclusion would be that there is not enough evidence to justify a prosecution, which would leave us in the exact situation we are in now. very unlikely for porter to be demonstrated guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, likely impossible for him...

like or not it is the prosecution who has the burden of proof and an accused has the right to confront his or her accuser. unfortunately the complainant is dead and we will never hear her evidence or see it tested. failing to see the double standard.