Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Tom Beard,
Igneous Tarn
Character name gets my vote
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The Police could have just dropped the charges
Probably not, but it sure seems they could have granted diversion as the judge suggested.
Fuck up from day one
Agreed.
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The reason for the not guilty plea was, imho, to force a trial
Do you really believe after seeing that tv story that Arie is gagging for a court case?
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Diversion can only be offered after a guilty plea and Voorkamp changed his plea to not guilty
That first proposition was denied upthread, and I believe Russell was clear enough about the sequence of events about the plea, restated at Te Standard:
Erasmus has also said in a statement that the police will not approve diversion because that would require “an informed admission of guilt”. Anyone who saw the programme will have seen that.
And, indeed, Arie’s counsel originally entered a guilty plea. It was withdrawn only after it became clear that the police were not going to countenance diversion.
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to Kumara Republic,
All you need now is a friendly billionaire
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Lilith __,
Torchwood, a story of insurance fraud in the eastern suburbs..
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
extra points for a Cherry 2000 reference
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Hilary Stace,
feminist chocolate
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Tom Beard,
another story of O
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
more genre/story types
period drama
(with apologies to Alasdair Thompson)