Category Archives: Legal
Hard cases, seductive solutions
After the trial, the things the jury weren’t allowed to know. In the case of Vincent Tabak, convicted of murdering Joanne Yeates, the revelation that
Computer analysts found the Dutch engineer appeared to have a fascination with pornography depicting violence towards women. In some of the films he viewed, men held women by the neck while they had sex.
Vincent Tabak and the porn searches the jury did not hear about
The immediate demand is to know how criminal procedure could mean that “[t]he jury was left ignorant of what the police believed was important evidence.” (Some people go off in…other directions) Read the rest of this entry