You've lost me completely now, no sane person pleads guilty to murder if he or she is innocent.
In any event, a reminder to all. Let's keep the debate constructive guys and look at the evidence of what took place rather than what some surmise occurred. TY
People do and have pleaded guilty to murder, it's been proven I believe mrswah posted on this subject in the main thread.
So.... why is the plea needed ??? (keeping on topic)
Was it admissible at his main trial??? The plea in itself was the evidence that the prosecution had, not anything else.... not weak DNA... it's the plea that is the cornerstone of the Prosecution case..
What actually backs up this plea..... NOTHING as far as I can see.. it's weak beyond belief... it's holier than thou...
I've written on the "Defence will State their case" thread, that I believe the jury only had the option to find him Guilty Of Murder Or Not Guilty of murder... I do not believe they had the option to find him guilty of Manslaughter....So with that in mind, what does this plea do???
We have our minds confused by the information... we need clarity... Could he have withdrawn the plea at any time????
If he only had the charge of Murder and the Jury had only to find him guilt of Murder Or Not... Then where is the evidence to back up this so called plea?????
How does the evidence prove he did it... The plea says he did it....... BUT....... anyone can say they did anything...
I do believe I need to clarify that the Jury had two options and two options only.....
(1): Guilty of Murder
(2): Not Guilty of Murder
I believe they were swayed by the PLEA.... and not the evidence... because just like some people believe they too would have probably said
"No sane person would plead guilty to murder"....
And they believed he was guilty of causing her death!!!! because he said he was responsible... But at No point does he actually say he killed Joanna Yeates...
And if they were only given 2 choices at to his guilt, then they (IMO) went with Guilty of Murder, because I don't think there was a Manslaughter option!! (I Could be wrong)..
So we do not know what would have happened if the Jury said "Not Guilty"!!!
Where would that leave Dr Vincent Tabak.... would he be able to withdraw his plea????