Bahamian Justice - There Is None
Between the David Copperfield mess, Anna Nicole Smith and now the John Travolta case, I have decided that if I ever commit a crime or alleged to have committed a crime I would like it to be in the Bahamas. In another blow to their legal system yesterday, a Bahamian judge declared a mistrial in the John Travolta case yesterday and ordered a retrial. Umm, it is doubtful there will actually be a retrial. For all practical purposes this thing is over and everyone will feel like there has been no closure.
It is hard to exactly understand what happened, but it sounds like a lawyer reported on Bahamian television that he had heard from one of the jurors that at least one of the defendants had been acquitted. That apparently was enough for the judge to declare a mistrial. There have been no reports that the judge actually spoke to the juror who allegedly revealed this. Around that same time the foreman of the jury told the judge they were having trouble reaching a verdict. I guess instead of an acquittal being announced to the world and embarrassing the Bahamian justice system, a mistrial because some juror made a phone call sound much more palatable. Now there will be some time that will pass and then some more time and then The Bahamas is probably hoping everyone will forget about this little incident and come have a pina colada courtesy of the government.
