What is prejudicial?? Anything that stops someone from receiving a fair trial...
Nigel Lickley QC, summing up the opening for the prosecution, said: ”On May 5 this defendant admitted killing Joanna Yeates – he pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.
”He accepts he unlawfully killed her. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, by that plea of guilty the issue of who killed Joanna Yeates was no longer in doubt.
There was only "Murder" as an option for the Jury on the table.. "Manslaughter" was not given for the jury to choose between the two...
We now have a massive issue... By Nigel Lickley telling the jury in his opening speech, that Dr Vincent Tabak had already admitted to "Manslaughter".. The jury were prejudiced... Whether Dr Vincent Tabak got on the stand or didn't.. The Jury were already Prejudiced by the statement that The Prosecution made...
How is any Jury in the land going to let a man go free, if they know that he has already pleaded guilty to "Manslaughter??"
Put yourselves in the Jurys position... You have a man saying I killed someone, I did all these terrible things... But it was an accident...
Now as the jury you would probably be stuck with what to do... It is a great dilema.... "The man has admitted his guilt" ..The prosecution have said so... The man has sat in trial and explained how he managed to kill this person...
So as a Jury what do we do??? If we say
Not Guilty.... does that mean he walks FREE!!
Remember the jury couldn't make up their minds as to Dr Vincent Tabak's guilt and sent a note to the Judge... What did this note say?? Did the jury ask if they found him
"Not Guilty" of Murder then would Dr Vincent Tabak walk free"???Because that would make sense as to why all these people found him guilty.... They wouldn't want someone walking the street who had admitted to "Manslaughter" and told them how he apparently did it, even if the evidence didn't support Dr Vincent Tabak's story... The Jury would always find him "Guilty"..
So how can The Prosecution get away with
Prejudicing the case in his opening speech, and not only the Defence didn't say anything..... But the judge didn't throw the case out from the start!!We have him telling the Jury that:
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, by that plea of guilty the issue of who killed Joanna Yeates was no longer in doubt.
So faced with that option of only finding him "Guilty of Murder" what are the Jury going to do????
Find Him Guilty of course!!!!!The trial was prejudiced from the start..
Tainted with them all
Not upholding our Judicial System... And making a mockery out of all our citizen's to show us all how they can NOT follow the law, but get away with it too... (imo) Truly disgusting!!
https://stories.swns.com/news/jo-yeates-strangled-by-cold-and-calculated-vincent-tabak-21328/