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Thread #144168   Message #3332616
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
02-Apr-12 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Extradition
Subject: RE: BS: Extradition
I'm also concerned with the one who is already there.

65 year old businessman Christopher Tappin has been kept for some time in solitary confinement, he has been refused bail as a "danger to the public and a flight risk" and his lawyers are located in Austin Texas and have to fly in to visit him in the New Mexico jail where he is held.

The only press releases we have seen are statements from the prosecution and they seem to be busily engaged in trying his case in the Media.

Not one word has been published of his side of the story, and he can't even have the books of crossword puzzles sent by his family. The prison authorities took the books and handed him the envelope.

It seems likely that his trial will take place in two years from now, which means that he will serve at least two years even if found not guilty.

My guess would be that if he is found not guilty, they will turn him loose at the prison gate without apology, and leave him to find his own way back to the UK.

American Justice!.........An OXYMORON!

Don T.