SANDMAN wrote:Sorry, father of the dead guy! Really! We're SORRY! Look, just blame it all on the damned dirty foreigner, yeah? Hell, yeah! That's the way to do it!"
I don't care if Dean is guilty or innocent. He got a fucked-up court case and those same dumb twats have fucked up AGAIN by letting him go. TAIWAN, TAIWAN, TAIWAN! But NOOOOOOOOOOO! Let's blame the foreigner!
For me the problem stems, not from a conviction of his innocence (which I don't have), but a lack of conviction in the court process and in the media. I base this on what I have read and on what I have witnessed in the court room. Honestly, I thought the trial was a sham.
ZD might indeed be guilty, but that's not a conclusion that could have been dependably arrived at by his trial, in my opinion.
Taipei Times reports that ZD's (commonlaw) wife was detained and released on bail, on suspicion of having been involved in ZD's escape.
In the same story, Linda Arrigo says that there is "no need" for ZD to return to Taiwan. Interesting wording, and the Taipei Times doesn't follow up with her reasoning. Does the Taiwan media have anything further on that?
Lastly, in the article, it states that:
The court said that after drinking with friends in the early hours of March 25, 2010, Dean decided to drive home in his black Mercedes-Benz. On the way, he allegedly hit a scooter from behind, striking its rider, Huang Chiun-teh (黃俊德), so hard that Huang’s neck was broken, leaving him paralyzed for several minutes before he died.
I don't doubt that that Huang died of a broken neck, and how terrible that must have been, but it makes it sound like the car broke his neck. In my experience, fatal injuries are usually cause by damage incurred after the rider has come of his bike, not from the impact itself. This is because in most cases, the point of impact is at knee level, not higher. This is one reason, apart from the safety gear worn, why professional motorcycle racers don't usually sustain life-threatening injuries. The race tracks are laid out so that when they do come off their bikes they slide for a long distance before coming to a stop. Much different than being slammed into a curb, another vehicle, or a lightpost. Anyway, just an observation. I wonder what the forensics report actually said? It's not really important, I guess.
Dead is dead.I also wonder about the quality of ZD's legal representation. The Taipei Times states that his lawyer, Billy Chen (陳達成) once received a one year suspension for practising law without a licence. That doesn't sound too professional to me.