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It must have been tested. If it weren't KCl, then why would there be no prosecution? If it were vitamin D, it'd be a very short hearing. >I don't agree. On ap
by impossiblefork 2y ago
It must have been tested. If it weren't KCl, then why would there be no prosecution?
If it were vitamin D, it'd be a very short hearing.
>I don't agree. On appeal there are only two "jurors" ("nämndemän"), and they can be outvoted by the three career judges. Also, a real jury doesn't have to explain their reasoning in writing.
Yes, but is that actually good? Isn't it better to have reasoned judgements? That people explain carefully, why they've determined things as they have, so that their reasoning can be questioned?
If there's an unaccountable jury which doesn't have to justify itself, then I can't trust the judgements of the courts. They need to justify themselves, because we have set them there as representatives for ourselves.
But surely the prosecutor has tried to figure out how the brown bottle was obtained? Surely questions about this were asked during interviews.
Also, do you really think it's good for people to come to these kinds of unjustified conclusions, and convict people for things for which there is in fact no evidence?
- bjornsing 2y ago> It must have been tested. If it weren't KCl, then why would there be no prosecution? The KCl story sounds so weird to me that it’s hard to reason about. Why would the spouse of someone with a serious medical condition be medicating their husband without his or his doctor’s knowledge? It also doesn’t explain the elevated vitamin D. So you’d have to conclude the investigation with two unsolved mysteries so to speak.
- impossiblefork 2y agoYes, and that is presumably a crime in itself, even though it isn't the 'big' crime of poisoning somebody. My guess is that the wife poisoned him with vitamin D and then started dosing with KCl for some reason, then the KCl dosing was discovered, and we still can't be sure she did the vitamin D dosing. Of course, she probably did. It's very plausible, since the behaviour is so similar to the poisoning behaviour, but we don't have actual evidence of her poisoning him with vitamin D. We have evidence of some lesser, similar crime.
- matthewdgreen 2y agoThe article says that the doctors found high concentrations of Vitamin D in the water bottle he brought in. The video in which she apparently doses this bottle is dated July 23, 2021. According to the article, she was arrested later that same evening. So not a lot of time for her to change strategies from Vitamin D to KCl. Either the bottle contained Vitamin D, the author is incorrect, or else the police seized the wrong bottle.
- impossiblefork 2y agoAh. Then, if there is a decision not to prosecute, that decision would be exceedingly strange. But surely that can't be the case, it would be too stupid.