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Florida wants to execute a Dane

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Anonymous:
I don't believe any of you know the truth and have probably never met her.
Just because she is a Dane it does not make her innocent.

Oscar:
There is no question that she made some errors.

First she didn't run away but remained in a battered wife relationship. The experiences from the Faye Copeland case clearly states that a wife is responsible for the actions of her husband if she remains in the relationship while he commits the crimes.

Second she didn't understand that that she was in a country where you can be charged with both obstruction of justice and conspiracy. They are not charges we use in Denmark. The police don't need that. They have secretly collected DNA for the past 50 year. In the start they did not recognize that they did it when every newborn gave a small blood-sample that was stored for later research. But when the technoligy became mainstream, they had the register at hand. Second of all all phonecalls have been stored for at least two year in a digital format. It is just asking the judge to get permisson to access all phonecalls in the area where the crime occur. It sounds like big-brother and it is but the crime rate is so much lower. But had she told what her boyfriend did in Denmark her entire family would have been humiliated. Suicides would have followed. That's properly why she choose to run in the first place.

I just have to ask. Is it normal for the FBI to leave people facing more than 60 years in jail running free around without charging them or arresting them? She did run when they told her that they were thinking of charging her.

Revenge Fantasy:
Prosecutorial discretion is a power like any other that can be abused. This woman’s case would not be the first its kind.
http://http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1204-30.htm
http://http://prisonsandfamilies.blogspot.com/
http://http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/69

Oscar:
The latest update is.

Our supreme court ruled that they would not interfere because the case is not special. Of course it is the first time Denmark extradite a person to the United States, but as some know NATO got a new boss, so the relationship between Denmark and the United States must not suffer.

Because the crimes she is charged with would hardly result in any conviction at all, she was allowed to live in house arrest and attend her job in return of leaving her passport at the police. But she took the case to the European Court of Human Rights and as revenge the prosecutor got a appeal court to jail her until she can be extradited.

The European Court of Human Right are known to give some hard rulings on several of our laws, so if they can break her before the case is dealt with, our government can avoid the risk of loosing again.

It seems that the case is becoming more and more political.

Now suddenly the membership of NATO has become an issue. It is rather shocking as Denmark has been among the most loyal supporters of the war on terrorism. While soldiers from most countries are drinking beer in Kabul and missed out on Iraq totally, Denmark has been in the frontline and several of our servicemen have paid with their lives.

Oscar:
Update:

She is going to fly out tomorrow escorted by two marshall. Because she is not considered a flight risk in Denmark, she will be released from prison today so she can go home and see to that her house is in order and say farewell to her daughter - properly forever as too many people are interested in the case not going to trial. Somehow the authorities will try to keep her alive, but the hope is not that big. She knows too much about the deal made with the real criminals in the case.

New information is that she left Florida in 2001 without having been charged. She was charged in 2003 secretly so they could avoid her from moving away from Denmark and a political deal could be made which secured Denmark a high profile job in an internaitonal defense organisation. She didn't know that she was wanted until she was arrested in Denmark.

Second the charge she is being extradited on is Conspiracy. Conspiracy is not a crime in Denmark, so it is against the law to extradite her because the agreement clearly state that the crime people are extradited for has to be a crime in both countries. But it was discovered too late (by accident??) and the marshalls have used a lot of money to fly all the way to Denmark, so the extradition process cannot be postponed.

International politics can be so dirty.

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