Friday, July 08, 2016
Crap
Reading about Germany's fake "effort" to make it look like they're getting stricter with persons of a migrating background. Reminded me of the Saudi defendant in the trial where I served on the jury. I got curious to see if he had been deported yet. Nope, he's still in state prison, and he's filing an appeal on completely spurious grounds.
According to this, Aljaffar is trying to make a case that he was "denied" "rights" because the Arabic interpreter was "non-certified".
Crap. In the first place he didn't need an interpreter. His English was just fine. He understood everything. The interpreter had to stop him from responding directly to questions and force the "interpretation" process. Several times he conferred with the interpreter and changed an answer after the conferring. The interpreter was NOT acting contrary to Aljaffar's interest. He was clearly trying to help Aljaffar's strategy. We assumed he was paid by Aljaffar, not by the court.
Later note, impelled by a sense of fairness: Aljaffar probably COULD argue that his attorney was incompetent. The attorney made insulting and condescending NYC-style assumptions about us local yokels, clearly seeing us as bigoted uneducated uninformed XENOPHOBE BUFFOONS, showing that he had no sense of how actual humans think. He also made a bizarre argument about "helping our ally Saudi Arabia". Help the country that attacked us on 9/11? Not on your fucking life. It's possible that a less arrogant and more intuitive attorney could have changed the result, maybe not all the way to innocent but at least cutting the number of guilties.
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