The guy who ate my coworker, first described in this thread, is being retried:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1497243
I guess it’s not too surprising there’s going to be some legal strangeness from this bizarre situation.
I remember this, and your thread. But I wanted to say that the episode is fodder for a great B-movie title:
Cannibals Ate My Coworker
I liked this bit… “the Supreme Court ruled that the verdict was too lenient”
Really!
Hunh. According to the article, raw or cooked, the guy’s penis proved inedible.
I find that a little hard to swallow.
How does that work? The retrial that is. I thought if you were found guilty you couldn’t be tried again. (Which would be appropriate in the VT child molester case!) Nevermind, I was thinking of you being found innocent, not guilty. Are retrials done very often because the sentencing was too lenient, though?
We’re all familiar with the unappetizing details of this rather meaty criminal case; there’s no need to regurgitate the details here, although the justices involved will no doubt bone up on the case history. It sounds like their seminal decision was prompted by their visceral reaction to the case; namely, that they find the prospect of Miewes going free an unpalatable one and have determined to further ruminate his sentencing. Sounds reasonable enough to me; there’s no need to wax dyspeptic over the Supreme Court’s decision.
This is in Germany.
The verdict only becomes final unless one of the sides appeals it within a certain time frame (IIRC a week in a criminal case.) In this case both sides appealed and the prosecution was successful. So from a technical standpoint he was never acquitted effectively.
“Too lenient” is a simplification. The highest court of appeals decided that there was evidence that not all legal criteria for murder had been taken into account properly. Most importantly a sexual motive wasn’t ruled out convincingly.
In Soviet Union, you eat cannibal!
You know how it is. When it comes to penis in a mouth; some spit, some swallow.
Makes sense, really… After all, you are what you eat.
I hope Germany reinstitutes the death penalty, just for this guy.
I want them to grant him his request for a last meal.
Regards,
Shodan
The Scrivener --you’ve not only whet my appetite for more, you’re killing me!
I see this being referenced in the Sequential Threads thread, along with:
**Pitch a totally fresh idea for a movie or TV show **
I dunno, maybe a musical with Barbra Streisand singing the title song:
“People,
People who eat people,
Are the hungriest people in the world…”
Wish I could find the article for you Revtim, I just read something about this guy a few days ago. While he is in jail he has been suing everyone and their brother. Something about unauthorized biographies or something. I’m not sure how you can defame a convicted cannibal but appartently you can.
I read something about Miewes suing the [I’m pretty sure German] makers of a film (fictionalized? documentary? I think it was the latter), on the grounds that it was defamatory. (Perhaps he just doesn’t care for his life becoming grist for the pop-cultural mill.) I don’t think the film’s been released anywhere yet, due to the legal action.
I couldn’t find it on IMDB… some interesting keyword searches be damned. :dubious:
Maybe it was this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10787534/
I don’t remember if that was the exact article but that was the info I was refering to. He ate someone, how much worse can the movie be? Did it say he used the wrong wine with dinner?
They’d give him a prison line-up. Kinda like a buffet.