[PASSED] Repeal "Double Jeopardy Prohibition"

[Zaklen]

The ShinRa Company 7 denies the passage of this bill. For we believe that once you are acquitted of a said crime, you cannot be retried. It would be quite possible, if this legislation was reversed, to sway other people or nations to alter a previous verdict.

Therefore, I deny passage and will pray that my fellow WA members choose to do the same. However, at the end of the day--no matter the decision--I hope we are able to cast our differences aside no matter the outcome.

I thought I'd bring to your attention that "Double Jeopardy" Prevents the retrial of someone if they are acquitted of murder, and then immediately stand up and yell "I did it!" at the top of their lungs. How is that justice?

[Knootoss]

" 'Double Jeopardy Prohibition' is getting crushed. My faith in humanity is slightly restored."


Ambassador Aram Koopman
World Assembly representative for the Dutch Democratic Republic of Knootoss

[Novus Niciae]

In the Name of the Eternal Kawaii, may the Cute One be praised

We rise in support of the World Assembly's continued efforts to clean house, ridding this body of poor legislation so that better may take its place. Keep up the good work, ladies and gentlemen.

The problem here is that there is no garaentee that the replacement will pass.
We could well be left with no double jeopardy protection resolution rather than one that works as intended most of the time.

[Flibbleites]

The ShinRa Company 7 denies the passage of this bill. For we believe that once you are acquitted of a said crime, you cannot be retried.

You do realize that you can continue to do that even if this is repealed, right?

Bob Flibble
WA Representative

[Karphthos]

Voted for immediately, actually, I was one of the very first voters

[Murray the Evil Skull]

Suddenly the doors of the Festering Snakepit are a thrown open and a largish self-propelled cannon looking device rolled inside the Assembly Hall.The barrel was enourmous(it loked like you could fit a person inside the barrel. A rather fetching camo bikini-clad catgirl named Clarice was driving the device. Sitting next to her, in the commander's seat was Murray(who was wearing a Wehrmacht Tank officer's cap). Accompianing the device were a score of camo bikini clad Catgirls carrying tasers, and lassos. All wore rather fetching Wehrmacht Tanker caps as well. The device rolled to the center of the room and turned to point at a window facing the Vastia Memorial Reflecting pool, 13 floors below. The Skull msmiled most evilly and said,

"Greetings mortals. It is I Murray, the harbinger of all your dooms, and the future leader of the WA. I have come to offer my support to this lovely repeal authored by the delegation of Mousebumples....a nation after my own blackened soul. As you can see I have borrowed Felix's Defenestrator Mark 1.0. I shall now demonstrate how it works. And since I find his arguemnets idiotic, the ambassador from the Shinra Company 7 will be the first.....but definately not the last Mortals! MYUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Get him ladies."

Whooping and cheering the catgirls charged over to the ambassador, subdued him, then loaded him into the barrel of the cannon, which began to clang, whirr, and hum.

"Fire!", Murray yelled.

Clarice replied as she pressed the trigger,
"Aye Aye, boss!"

With a whoosh of compressed air, the ambassador from Shinra Company 7 was hurled out of the window, and landed with a splash a few seconds later into thr Vastian pool below.

[Zaklen]

Good show, Murray.

[Karphthos]

With a whoosh of compressed air, the ambassador from Shinra Company 7 was hurled out of the window, and landed with a splash a few seconds later into thr Vastian pool below.

[Hiraga]

"This destroys my faith in the WA to properly create a venue to protect the rights of innocent people in the world from the harassment of tyrannical regimes. My nation is against this repeal, for it does work as intended and this is a conspiracy by those that wish to destroy the WA and it's ideals to remove the very protections they despise."

"If this is not stopped, Hiraga will have no other recourse than to leave the WA as is it's right. The charter of my region cannot allow my nation to stay in it's circle of influence and support the repeal of a resolution that protects civil rights."

[Knootoss]

"This destroys my faith in the WA to properly create a venue to protect the rights of innocent people in the world from the harassment of tyrannical regimes. My nation is against this repeal, for it does work as intended and this is a conspiracy by those that wish to destroy the WA and it's ideals to remove the very protections they despise."

Do you have any, you know, "evidence" of this conspiracy? Or are you just using dramatic hyperbole i.e. lying?


Ambassador Aram Koopman
World Assembly representative for the Dutch Democratic Republic of Knootoss

[Damanucus]

The ShinRa Company 7 denies the passage of this bill. For we believe that once you are acquitted of a said crime, you cannot be retried. It would be quite possible, if this legislation was reversed, to sway other people or nations to alter a previous verdict.

Therefore, I deny passage and will pray that my fellow WA members choose to do the same. However, at the end of the day--no matter the decision--I hope we are able to cast our differences aside no matter the outcome.

So, pray tell, may I ask what happens if a jury is bribed into declaring a defendant not guilty despite the overwhelming evidence towards their guilt?

Stephanie Orman
Representative, Nomadic Peoples of Damanucus

[Paper Flowers]

"This destroys my faith in the WA to properly create a venue to protect the rights of innocent people in the world from the harassment of tyrannical regimes. My nation is against this repeal, for it does work as intended and this is a conspiracy by those that wish to destroy the WA and it's ideals to remove the very protections they despise."

So it is the intent of Hiraga to allow corruption, bribery, intimidation and the like to govern the legal system rather than to allow nations to take reasonable measures against such actions? By not allowing retrials under any circumstances you are giving the guilty exactly the weapons they need to be able to escape punishment for their crimes and in doing so you are no better than they.

"If this is not stopped, Hiraga will have no other recourse than to leave the WA as is it's right. The charter of my region cannot allow my nation to stay in it's circle of influence and support the repeal of a resolution that protects civil rights."

I believe this is where I call dibs on the soon-to-be vacant office.

Ambassador Walker

[Delegate Vinage]

I, Lothar Prolark, World Assembly Delegate and Media Minister of Europeia will be voting Repeal/Aye on this proposal after a 3/1 internal vote deciding such action. We previously voted Nay on the first vote for this Proposal and are glad to see it come to a swift end.

[Merfurian]

"This destroys my faith in the WA to properly create a venue to protect the rights of innocent people in the world from the harassment of tyrannical regimes. My nation is against this repeal, for it does work as intended and this is a conspiracy by those that wish to destroy the WA and it's ideals to remove the very protections they despise."

So it is the intent of Hiraga to allow corruption, bribery, intimidation and the like to govern the legal system rather than to allow nations to take reasonable measures against such actions? By not allowing retrials under any circumstances you are giving the guilty exactly the weapons they need to be able to escape punishment for their crimes and in doing so you are no better than they.

"If this is not stopped, Hiraga will have no other recourse than to leave the WA as is it's right. The charter of my region cannot allow my nation to stay in it's circle of influence and support the repeal of a resolution that protects civil rights."

I believe this is where I call dibs on the soon-to-be vacant office.

Ambassador Walker

Fine. Tell you what, I'll share the office - the Federal Government has assigned me more staff, so I need more office space. Building Management is such a nightmarish bureaucracy that it's just easier to make arrangements with other diplomats than to arrange offices through Building Management.

Klause Uliyan
etc

[Damanucus]

So it is the intent of Hiraga to allow corruption, bribery, intimidation and the like to govern the legal system rather than to allow nations to take reasonable measures against such actions? By not allowing retrials under any circumstances you are giving the guilty exactly the weapons they need to be able to escape punishment for their crimes and in doing so you are no better than they.



I believe this is where I call dibs on the soon-to-be vacant office.

Ambassador Walker

Fine. Tell you what, I'll share the office - the Federal Government has assigned me more staff, so I need more office space. Building Management is such a nightmarish bureaucracy that it's just easier to make arrangements with other diplomats than to arrange offices through Building Management.

Klause Uliyan
etc

How about a three-way space share? I'm getting sick of being stuck in Electronic Waste.

Stephanie Orman
Representative, Nomadic Peoples of Damanucus

[Detectatia]

Though our fledgling nation is new to the World Assembly, the people of Detectatia will find it comforting to know that our decision for application to the World Assembly will hopefully not allow our nation to have to submit to what we can only describe as a troubling resolution banning double jeopardy, as evidenced by the current vote count.

Detectatia recognizes that double jeopardy is indeed a problem no citizen should have to endure. However, as stated in the resolution, we are not pleased with the mandate prohibiting a second trial, even in the case of new evidence. Detectatia is a nation founded on the principles of government at an absolute minimum, and freedom at the forefront. But a key part, and in fact, one of the only parts of government to Detectatia is the enforcement of reasonable and impartial and accurate justice against all those who would violently restrict the rights and abuse the volition of others: whether this be through murder, robbery, or otherwise.

Therefore, as a representative and ambassador of The People's Republic of Detectatia, I will be casting a vote in support of the resolution at hand.

Respectfully,
Weston Richey
Representative
The People's Republic of Detectatia
The NationStates of DDO

[Merfurian]

Fine. Tell you what, I'll share the office - the Federal Government has assigned me more staff, so I need more office space. Building Management is such a nightmarish bureaucracy that it's just easier to make arrangements with other diplomats than to arrange offices through Building Management.

Klause Uliyan
etc

How about a three-way space share? I'm getting sick of being stuck in Electronic Waste.

Stephanie Orman
Representative, Nomadic Peoples of Damanucus

Done. I will happily share the office with two fine ambassadors. In return, we will do likewise with my office.

[Sanctaria]

I've voted FOR, but this may only be temporary, depending on the regional vote of my region which I have to abide by.

But at least I'm stacking in your favour. You can thank me later!

I was able to vote FOR after all!

Nothing makes this Ambassador more happy.

[Great England and Northern Wales]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Constitutional Monarchy of Great England and Northern Wales
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly agrees with the
proposed repeal and pledges our nations full support to
the influence of the in question repeal proposal, due
partly to a problem with detaining certain criminals
using the original 'Double Jeopardy Prohibition' proposal
to unjustly de-legitimise secondary trials presenting new
evidence to the case.

[Astrolinium]

The Sublime Island Kingdom casts its vote for this repeal.

" 'Double Jeopardy Prohibition' is getting crushed. My faith in humanity is slightly restored."

(Image)
Ambassador Aram Koopman
World Assembly representative for the Dutch Democratic Republic of Knootoss

Dr. Koopman, you will understand that I say this in the absolute most heterosexual way possible: that new hat of yours is positively fabulous.

[Arivali]

While I'm beginning to get tired of the constant repeals, this one needs repealed. If someone is convicted, why try them again? Oi...

[Dagguerro]

*snip*

Representative, I must verhemently object.

Not to firing the ambassador from Shinra Company 7 through the window, he had it coming. But the carpet! Look at what wheeling your cannon in has done to the carpet!

In any case we are very pleased to vote in favour of this repeal.

[Damanucus]

*snip*

Representative, I must verhemently object.

Not to firing the ambassador from Shinra Company 7 through the window, he had it coming. But the carpet! Look at what wheeling your cannon in has done to the carpet!

In any case we are very pleased to vote in favour of this repeal.

Don't worry; the gnomes can fix that up when they repair the window.

By the way Murray, I was wondering where that had been put some time ago. Why did you not tell me you had it stashed away in your office?

While I'm beginning to get tired of the constant repeals, this one needs repealed. If someone is convicted, why try them again? Oi...

You might want to read the original resolution, fellow Ambassador...

Stephanie Orman
Representative, Nomadic Peoples of Damanucus

[Philimbesi]

Nigel stands up.

"I rise today to cast my vote for this repeal as the original prohibition has it has directly affected our television industry. For weeks now our number one TV quiz show has been unable to proceed as it would like as without double jeopardy there's no way for the scores to really change, nor is there any way to get to final jeopardy."

Ginger glanced around the chamber an starts to pull on Nigel's shirt sleeve.

"This has kept this show in its first phase which gets pretty boring. I mean how many times you can hear 'no sorry you are wrong', or 'no sorry there's no more categories left'... it's been very bad for our..."

Ginger starts to whisper to Nigel through tightly gritted teeth. He ignores her.

"Personally I feel this is a very irresponsible act to begin with, what the IntSov crowd has against a simple TV quiz show is completely beyond me, what's next? Will we pass legislation making it illegal to by a vowel, or to say 'no whammies' before hitting a button..where does this tyranny end?!"

Finally Ginger yanks Nigel down by the shirt collar... after a short whisper exchange that ends with the word that sounds suspiciously like git. Nigel straightens and flashes a sheepish smile.

"Right... well that's a ballgame of different color now isn't it.... still we support this..."

He sits back down.

[Murray the Evil Skull]

While I'm beginning to get tired of the constant repeals, this one needs repealed. If someone is convicted, why try them again? Oi...

"Grab him ladies!", Murray said with a malevolent grin.

Whooping and cheering the camo bikini clad catgirls swarmed the ambassador, subdued and loaded him into the barrel of the cannon. A few moments after a slikght whirring and humming as the Defenestrator charged up, Murray yelled out to Clarice,

"Fire, mortal!"

"Aye Aye!", Clarice replied as she pushed the trigger.

There was a great whoosh of compressed air and a crash as the ambassador was propelled out of the window. His screams trailed away into a splash as he hit the water of the Vastian pool a few seconds later.

Murray turned his attention to the startled masses in the Festering Snakepit and said,

"I'm also tired of all the bitching about repeals, mortals! so who else wants some! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Don't worry; the gnomes can fix that up when they repair the window.

By the way Murray, I was wondering where that had been put some time ago. Why did you not tell me you had it stashed away in your office?

"Actually I borrowed it from Iron Felix, mortal. It was just gathering dust, because he made an improved model(ie. the Defenestrator Mark 2.0). I found it in the basement under a tarp."