Geoffrey Flatman, director of public prosecutions in the Aussie state of Victoria, warned CrimeNet that it was in contempt of court. Rob Hulls, Victorian attorney general, wrote a letter to CrimeNet's boss, Ken Shultz, telling him to shut down his Web site or risk serious legal sanctions. And, in TalkBack after TalkBack, ZDNet readers went off the deep end about juries and what they perceived as Australia's draconian legal system. Well, Dave, I don't know what good arming a jury would do, particularly a sequestered jury. Our justice system could never get away with this type of tyranny in this country.
Criminal records are public to protect criminals from the judges making stuff up.
CrimeNet is actually performing a great service, but Australia is too backwards to grasp the concept of freedom. And there I was thinking innocent until proven guilty was the cornerstone of a just justice system. Mike Flippin , a Webmaster from Virginia, meanwhile, was more measured, albeit a tad superior. In the U.S., reporting on past crimes on an obscure Web site wouldn't be enough to contaminate the trial. Get a better legal system people of Australia.