| | | in the mean time trial number 1 is done except for verdict, and given it lasted two hours ...
My read? meant that there was time to put on evidence (the back & forth objections based on technicalities are frowned upon by the judge) and the suspect had opportunity to say his piece re whatever the evidence.
Failure to speak on own behalf is akin to caught running away from scene of crime, or worse, caught jumping bail during investigative phase.
OJ Simpson would likely have been found guilty in China even as he was able to write a book about how he would have done it had he done it.
bloomberg.com
Canadian’s Spying Trial in China Ends After Just Two Hours
IOW, suspect the evidence was was clear cut (not convoluted long dissertation re chain of custody / accountability necessary), and Spavor either did or did not speak on own behalf w/r to the evidence.
Spavor would certainly have known what the evidence package was comprised of, and as he had met Canadian consular officials at least once in 2019, and the fact that Team Canada refuses to even leak / discuss what Spavor had to say ctvnews.ca
“Due to the provisions of the Privacy Act, no further information can be disclosed."
... even as the same Team had no difficulty illegally leak Meng's device password after having gained the P/W under false pretence, says everyone in the know knows exactly what is going on, why and how, and that Spavor was either caught red-handed in doing spy-y acts, or worse, doing spy-y acts over a long duration and interacted w/ counter espionage folks deployed by the CCP, and in a box where the CCP knows exactly what he did when and with whom, only then doing the game of "Go" as opposed to chess with what was known.
Somebody must announce something at some juncture, and should Team Canada go indignant, evidence would likely be released to the public for transparency sake.
Continue in my disbelief that Team Canada believes the game is worth the trouble.
Bottom line, likely slam dunk case, and Team Canada can call / raise or fold.
Suspect the way we got here is that Team Canada promotes amateurs into position of decisions, given its political setup, and when a daisy-chain of amateurs are led by a few agenda-driven professionals of the deep-state, initiatives go wrong.
Whatever one might say of the CCP, amateurs they are likely not.
Let us see what Kovrig trial brings. |
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