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this may be a foreign concept to many of you.... but how about following the rules?

One may not take pictures in court because the defendants too have right to some privacy. not every defendant is guilty, remember? This rule is not new. Anybody who chooses to break the rules faces punishment.

And it's never smart to break the rules right in the faces of the people who decide on punishment

So it's very much his own fault.
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Posted: 2004-05-27 08:40:13
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dont wanna go to england.
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Posted: 2004-05-27 08:56:23
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what is interesting is that while photos cannot be taken in court, artists can make drawings of the defendant etc and these can, and are, published in newspapers and shown on TV news etc and very often are quite life like
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Posted: 2004-05-27 08:59:54
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Also at cinemas here in Greece and not only I presume, before showing the movie there is a warning for using your phone camera to record any scenes. It is not allowed by law etc etc.

Big headache for many corporations as well.

The next thing is a "mobile on" detector I guess.

Or a "kill mobile" device! Now that would be scary!


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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:06:17
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On 2004-05-27 08:59:54, masseur wrote:
what is interesting is that while photos cannot be taken in court, artists can make drawings of the defendant etc and these can, and are, published in newspapers and shown on TV news etc and very often are quite life like



don't know about england, but here they may only make a profile drawing from beside and behind the defendant (as if they look over your shoulder), never draw their faces from the frontside.

They may be recognizable still to those who know them I suppose but they're not close enough to make you recognise them on the street should you run into them.
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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:12:58
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Here is a couple of examples of some done in the UK (of the notorious Harold Shipman) and they certainly do resemble him very well (and probably many of those around him too). It does seem strange that this much detail can be drawn and published when photos cannot




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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:20:18
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oh well those would not be allowed here at all.
and strange or not, those are still the rules. It's not ok to break the law just because it's a strange law
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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:22:28
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they're pretty good, but for the most part you would have to know the person already to recognise them in those pictures. if you saw that on the nightly news then one of those people walked past you the next day, you might think they looked familiar but you wouldn't necessarily be able to say "hey, weren't you in the courtroom sketch from that trial on the news?"
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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:23:56
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oh yeah, I'm not disagreeing with your comments about the law, just highlighting the inconsistency. a year does seem a bit harsh when some people who are convicted of manslaughter or are an accessory to such can get away with 3 or 4 years (or less after good behaviour etc)
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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:28:52
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Don't agree with the bloke breaking the law, but surely something like a large fine or some smaller punishment is enough of a deterrant?? People commit far worse crimes over here and get away with it because police are too busy to care.

In summary, what he did was wrong, but the punishment was FAR too harsh. Of course there could be more to it...
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Posted: 2004-05-27 09:29:52
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