Is the Prosecutor playing dumb? #spectrial
Posted by Sofia in The Pirate Bay
I am as surprised as the rest of you that the Prosecutor dropped a big part of the charges against The Pirate Bay peeps. From the initial comments from the defended and their lawyers they did not see this coming.
As #spectrial indicates this is PR game with high stakes. To have part of the charges dropped on Day 2 ends up in Bad PR column. This is also a marathon and not a sprint race. This is won at the last step not at the start.
This should be the Prosecutor’s chance to prance around with his brilliance and there has been a few smug comments like ‘I am an expert of computer crimes’ and ‘ I have a long experience of copyright infringement’. He still gives the impression, to me anyway, of amateurville. He sounds like he does not know his case inside and out. This came across from the start.
P reads the list of claims of damages.
Court: Interest?
P: Ah yes. Yes.
Court (slightly irritated): From when should the interest start?
P: *silence*
P: 31 may 2006
He does not even get his opening statement right?!? At most times when the defense lawyers are pointing out something, there has not been a sharp & quick repose from the Prosecutor. A few times he has gone very defensive and answered back with ‘I can interrupted it my way’. Other examples of similar things is that he has not check the normal company structure from the British Virgin Islands. If he didn’t, don’t the MPAA & Co have the resources to do this?
Then there is the failure of presentation with a computer. It is clear that the Court wants to see the Prosecutor’s evidence on a projector and this projector has failed a few times. The Prosecutor easily gave up on it with the comment ‘Once it has started to misbehave then there is usually no stopping it’ whereas the Court wanted to him to keep trying it. This happens after years of preparation!?
All of this just does not make sense to me. After listening to his opening statement, I have been waiting to have a moment of clarity so I can understand his logic. Too high expectation? I hope that he not playing dumb and this is his best.
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