Honeymoon Murder?

[timshatz]

Originally Posted by Maestro

I don't know much about US laws, but if I'm not mistaking...

1 - Alabama (where the couple is from) still has capital punishment
2 - If a crime "cross a state border" (i.e. a man from New York commit a crime in New-Jersey), the crime is automatically considered as a federal crime. And the US federal gouvernment still has capital punishment.

However, what I don't know is if an American who kills an other American in a foreign country can be judged in the USA. If so, may be it was just a "smart move" to escape the electric chair.

I think it's a jurisdictional thing. He probably has charges brought against him in Australia. After that, it is a matter of extradition. Can't imagine any judge in the US is going to keep him in the states. No reason to do it. Only reason he would be tried in the US is if the country that wanted him was a totalitarian state and the act he committed was so henous it could not be ignored by the US authorities (international incident).

I don't think he's done anything illegal in US. He left the US with his wife and then didn't come back with her. That's pretty much that.

But it's better (for him anyway) he gets tried in Australia. If they did it in Alabama, he would most likely end up meeting "Old Sparky".

[Butters]

I've been a scuba diver for 30 yrs, and this guy's story is a complete load. I went to some of the links -this took place at 15 m (approx 50 ft0 and the guy took 2 min 30 secs to ascend. One minute would be plenty safe at that depth...Plus, it shows that he had air at the time.

If his bride was panicked or unconscious, all he had to do is dump her weights or pull the emergency CO2 inflater on her BCD. Either would have taken her straight to the surface without his assistance. In a case like that, you take the chance of an embolism over letting her drown. He's supposed to be a trained rescue diver, fer crissakes!

All I know is that there is no way that I would slowly ascend while watching MY wife sink to the bottom. That guy is one cold-blooded a-hole.

JL

[Butters]

The a-hole this thread is about has pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 4 yrs. He could be eligible for parole in as little as 18 months.

And I thought that the Canadian justice system was a joke...

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Scuba man jailed for wife's death

JL

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Who knows, maybe somebody will shank him when a guard's not looking.

[sabrina]

4 1/2years??!! They said that the guy asked his new wife to maximize her life insurance shortly before the honeymoon and now he's pled guilty...and he gets 4 1/2 years?

[lesofprimus]

I suppose he doesnt get the insurance money now that he's admitted to manslaughter....

[Catch22]

Poor him!

How do you accidentally not save somebody?

[diddyriddick]

Duplicate post. Mods-Please delete.

Thanks.