Our system is far from the same in England... Here in Singapore,
a judge preside and have final say on guilty or not
guilty... Over in England, a jury of 12 people decide if he is
guilty or not and in most cases, its far better than a one man
decision... But here arises the problem... The jury are make up of
normal citizens without any legal training... Sympathy and other
agendas like race or discrimination could sometimes confused
these ordinary layman...
In Gerrard's case, in my honest opinion... He should have been
found guilty. The fact that he started the problem, He went over to
the guy's table when he was sitting and having a
drink by himself... and his group or 6 attacked the guy and
they have all admitted to guilt now... Gerrard himself hit the guy
3 times as reported ! 3 times without the guy even hitting
back at any of them even once... You asked yourself, do yo need to
strike the guy 3 times for self-defence? So if this is not guilty
as sin, then I don't know what else is... But in a court room
in a city where he is well like and famous... The juries, we
could say were all star struck and fail to carried out their duties
as jurors.
OJ Simpson, a well know handsome American football
star got away with murder cos he could afford a good defensive
team of lawyers... Apart from that, the jury system is most of the
time flaw when it comes to a famous person or race or the
likeable... There were 9 blacks, 2 whites and one other race on the
jury of 12... 10 of which were women and 2 were men. The
woman he was charged with murder was his ex-wife and her friend,
both were white. Racial elements probably saved him from the
electric chair.
But a criminal never change his shape... cos 12 yrs later he was
arrested again for other crimes like robbery and assault with a
deadly weapon and kidnapping...
I guess on hindsight, Singapore's very own Benedict Goh and
Christopher Lee would have also got away without doing any jail
time if Sg had a star struck jury like those at the Liverpool
Crown Court... But I guess they are not as lucky as a legally
trained judge was in charge and could see the obvious unlike the
layman whose image of the person is more from what he watch in Tv
rather than what he has commit.
Aiyah, bro, over liao la.
Anyway, it is good to see SG in his true form, on the field
where he is a superb player.