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Stupid Magistrates
Not only do they find her guilty but they jail her for complaIning about it. We should have more working class people as magistrates--People who actually watch Corrie and would know the truth.
How could they believe the loud, obnoxious, red haied northern woman named Cilla Brown ( or is it Brown or Black ?) Anyway, Rita should have pleaded Guilty as she did actually hit him. Having pleaded guilty her solicitor, who was useless, couls have told it how it was without fear of cross examination and the Cilla Clan could not have given evidence I do not want to see these magistrates on Corries ever again |
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They are like all soap magistrates - CRAP
Anyway I cant wait to see CILLA get her comeuppance loud mouthed ugly trollope. ARGGGHHHHHHHHHH
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she doesnt really have to pay the fine, she can just spend her time in prison.
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Pathetic trial
If this case was about Chesney's so called 'brain damage' it seems likely that they would have at least got medical reports, if not got a doctor to give evidence. If this is what really happens, then we could all go round making up stories about feeling dizzy 'cos some old granny hit us. Pathetic Corrie, really pathetic. And wouldn't Rita have told someone about the bribes? Isn't interfering with the defendant against the rules or something?
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If they knew rita was pleading guilty they would not have needed any witnesses
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Would this not have appeared more realistic if it had been over a longer timescale? It is almost impossible to get the police to do anything here let alone courts!
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Re: Stupid Magistrates
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Originally posted by pistonbroke Erm reality check here? (Before you start complaining to David Blunkett).Not only do they find her guilty but they jail her for complaIning about it. We should have more working class people as magistrates--People who actually watch Corrie and would know the truth. G
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You mean poor St. Rita is not actually in jail,
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The entire trial was a travesty of a farce of two mockeries of a sham! (copyright Woody Allen). I won't nit pick, but not one iota of what happened on screen even vaguely resembled what would happen in real life. It probably wouldn't even have come to trial. That said, she did actually hit him, and admitted it. That in itself is breaking the law. This was clearly played out in order to get us wound up to the optimum level. It worked.
The scariest part was when they zoomed in to Rita's contorted and badly made up mush at the end! That image just freaked me out! Didn't sleep last night. Rudi
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Personally I thought Norris played a blinder
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Hmm,
As a person who has regularly slammed Corrie for inaccurancies and been flamed for it (just look back if you wish) I must state that last nights magistrates court episodes was the most realistic in Corrie for some time.Bare with me.... Now I am someone who has spent a lot of time in courts in my professional capacity (no I'm not a criminal!) I can state that the whole thing was similar to an actual hearing. Rita would have, without any shadow of a doubt, been convicted in a actual court for assaulting Chesney. She did hit him and she admitted to hitting him. All the other stuff about injuries is irrelevant. Also the bit about her shouting at the magistrates. Yep, taken down for that one too. However, it would be most unlikely that she would have been fined £500 + £500 compo. Maybe, just maybe £50 + £10 costs. Also the defence lawyer should have been shot. In an actual court cilla would have been in the witness box for about 4 or 5 hours being asked questions like '' Is it not true that you offered to drop the charges if Rita paid you £3000?' And 'are you not making this all up for financial gain to enable you all to go to florida?' Young chesney would have been hammered for being a little thug for about an hour and left the camera point in tears. That is just how it works! The victim (chesney here) is always treated like the criminal. They get no protection from the courts. Found all that 'dont slander the 9 year old boy stuff' a bit odd! However, the whole thing would have taken at least 18 months to come to court and been adjourned about 5 times before an actual trial took place. |
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Originally posted by poggs Bare with me.... Now there's an offer!!! Are you a boy or a girl, by the way???
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Re: Re: Stupid Magistrates
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Originally posted by cobaltmale "reality check"? well yes and no. How many people know nothing about the police, court and prison system,besides what they see on TV? Me, for oneErm reality check here? (Before you start complaining to David Blunkett). Whilst (almost!!) everyone realises Corrie is pure fiction, people *do* think it reflects reality. I'm absolutley amazed no medical witnessess were called,to testify to this 'brain damage' and to prove Chesney really was out cold until he woke up in hospital (surely disprovable!, simply call the doctor who examined him!!) Beyond reasonable doubt? I think not!! This sends out all the wrong messages to everyone!! |
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The only message that comes out in soaps is - what goes around comes around. ie. you can't do anything either legally or morally wrong without being punished for it by a) the soap law b) other characters carrying out their own rough justice c) God or fate dealing you a fatal blow. That is how soaps have always been and continue to be (with one or two exceptions perhaps, that Claire woman in Emmerdale who killed her husband seemed to get away with it but there's still time).
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I have pointed out on a number of threads that the portrayal of the legal system in Corrie is a complete farce.
While poggs raises some valid points, a lot of what he says is different to how it works locally to me. In particular, as someone who is running a successful business she would have been fined considerably more than £50 plus £10 costs. The minimum costs award in her position would be more like £50 and probably a lot more. |
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Rita should have apologised in Court and then waited for the Magistate to leave Court before giving him a verbal blast. She could not be sent down for contempt of carpark.
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Originally posted by poggs Having never actually been to court before, i don't have a clue how it all works, but one thing that you said above about the defence lawyer is what i was thinking about on Monday night.Hmm, As a person who has regularly slammed Corrie for inaccurancies and been flamed for it (just look back if you wish) I must state that last nights magistrates court episodes was the most realistic in Corrie for some time.Bare with me.... Now I am someone who has spent a lot of time in courts in my professional capacity (no I'm not a criminal!) I can state that the whole thing was similar to an actual hearing. Rita would have, without any shadow of a doubt, been convicted in a actual court for assaulting Chesney. She did hit him and she admitted to hitting him. All the other stuff about injuries is irrelevant. Also the bit about her shouting at the magistrates. Yep, taken down for that one too. However, it would be most unlikely that she would have been fined £500 + £500 compo. Maybe, just maybe £50 + £10 costs. Also the defence lawyer should have been shot. In an actual court cilla would have been in the witness box for about 4 or 5 hours being asked questions like '' Is it not true that you offered to drop the charges if Rita paid you £3000?' And 'are you not making this all up for financial gain to enable you all to go to florida?' Young chesney would have been hammered for being a little thug for about an hour and left the camera point in tears. That is just how it works! The victim (chesney here) is always treated like the criminal. They get no protection from the courts. Found all that 'dont slander the 9 year old boy stuff' a bit odd! However, the whole thing would have taken at least 18 months to come to court and been adjourned about 5 times before an actual trial took place. If that had been me, the owner of the local paper shop for years, with many friends in the street, a good character, etc,etc.... i would make sure that the magistrates, thru my lawyer, knew about who i was and how out of character the 'clip' was. Then how come the defence lawyer never took Cilla to bits?? No matter 'how brave' i wanted to be and all that, i would of made sure that the lawyer knew about the bribes, the threats, and about the thefts in the shop, add to that the banging of the ball outside the shop and the broken window, where was all that, surely that is important evidence to the build up of why Rita hit the kid??? Surely, the defence would of made sure that Rita was made to look a victim more than the actual 'victim' and although gulity, that she was 'pushed' to the crime, mainly due to the lack of Cilla, actually being a parent, plus the parents of the other kids involved lack of concern also, Tommy's attitude to the ball against the garage and his lack of stopping it, springs to mind. Like i said, i don't know anything about law, but if it was me, and i had my business, my name and my business to protect, no matter how 'guilty' i felt about what happened, i'd make sure that EVERYTHING was told in court. This just felt very rushed to me. |
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The script writers are not interested in making it like real life. They have never got a Court case right!
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I guess which ever way the writers want the storyline to go makes it true or false. To me Rita wouldn't of been found guilty like many people have said. You could tell Chesney was lying when he said "no I said that wrong" and like a few said he would of got an absolute grilling in that court room but they wanted Rita to be guilty so they had to just scap the normal legal system and make there own version lol.
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By her own admission she was guilty of assault.
She did clip him round the ear. The rest of Chesney's story was made up but those details should only affect the sentencing, not the verdict. |
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Magistates are bloody stupid,in real life some years ago I was found guilty of a crime that I did not commit(True) it took me three years to clear my name
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(just look back if you wish) I must state that last nights magistrates court episodes was the most realistic in Corrie for some time.