what is john terry?

there's 5 stars in cheryl surely?

one at a time tbf

why do they still persist with the ludicrous court cartoons?

Prosecutor: "You used to play for Arsenal, nobody makes any noise at the Emirates do they?" Cole: "Am I supposed to laugh at that?"

daniel taylor ‏@DTguardian
Cole: "If you're saying Loftus Road is louder than the Emirates I'd say: 'no, it's not."

daniel taylor ‏@DTguardian
Prosecutor: "Ok, let's not have that argument." Cole: "Well, you brought it up."

― r|t|c, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:33 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf ashley's shut the door on him/her there quite brilliantly

there's 5 stars in cheryl surely?

lol

From today's Standard:

In a hilarious misunderstanding, Terry was asked to repeat evidence that he had been sent off four times in his career.

“Can you say, please, four times?” asked his QC, George Carter-Stephenson.

“Please, please, please, please,” Terry responded

it's the trial that keeps on giving.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/john-terry-trial-please-please-please-could-you-repeat-that-7936075.html

The sooner the Home Office start uploading courtroom footage to Youtube, the better

oh man, laughing to tears over that.

http://www.discovery-records.com/csp/dis/discovery/large/263391.jpg

the footballer appeared confused

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get to Be a Cunt

I don't reckon that Terry would ever 'Think!'.

result imminent

Terry could have mistaken the word "Bridge" for "black", said Carter-Stephenson. Or even heard a voice in the Loftus Road crowd say "black" simultaneously with Ferdinand's lip movements.

you fucking blind cunt
v
you fucking Bridge cunt

Are the QPR fans widely known for randomly shouting out "black!" during games? r/t/c will know for sure.

The magistrate will not read the whole judgement but some key points

"John Terry is a cunt"

John Terry has been cleared of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand …

predictable

ccdavies: #Terry - nobody has been able to show Terry was lying - Rddle, He is credible
about 1 minute ago

should never have gone to trial

;_;

EBGJNRCJT

i don't get the "nobody can be sure what words he uttered" bit. He admits he said 'black' followed by an insult I thought?

he can use a different lie now, he's not guilty

now he probably won't even get an FA ban

Are the QPR fans widely known for randomly shouting out "black!" during games? r/t/c will know for sure.

― pandemic, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:18 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj84tfS7ag4

only in this sense tbh

joking about Terry aside this is a great day for people who want to know "what's wrong with calling somebody a fucking black cunt anyway?"

it's like klats said about the arry tax case, a lolling jury never convicts

this is such a load of shit

assumed the cps had incontrovertible video/audio of the incident to take it to court

they didn't, so one of the best criminal silks in london and probably a dozen other lawyers get to spend several months finding the slightest sliver of doubt and acquittal is inevitable

Waste of time and money, how did the police and CPS ever allowe this go to trial?

case seems weak but i wonder how many other pisspoor "he say she say" cases end up before magistrates just because

probably a fair result, rly

Thought this would happen. I think i said before the trial that he was lucky it went down the legal route rather than the FA one.

boo

case seems weak but i wonder how many other pisspoor "he say she say" cases end up before magistrates just because

― sorry i'm tumblr white (Noodle Vague), Friday, July 13, 2012 2:39 PM (2 hours ago)

this was heard by a district judge over 5 days

the best justice money can buy &c

please forgive my ignorance, but has Terry been accused of this sort of behavior before?

yes.

but not officially

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8853809/Matthew-Norman-one-can-only-marvel-at-just-how-wronged-John-Terry-has-been.html

2nd para

if only i knew sarcasm can be used as a court defence before i could have robbed a bank

that gun was satire!

xps thx

Oh wow at that Telegraph piece!

I've read the judgment now and it's far from exculpatory in its way. It emphasises how strong the crown case was, even while ultimately deciding the other way. It even declines to endorse the contention that our man is not a racist, which reads kind of weirdly when normally that's the first thing everyone accepts. It makes clear that the standard of proof is the key thing here - unlike with Suarez, where balance-of-probabilities meant the panel had to pick one or the other to believe, and plumped (entirely understandably) for Evra; here the judge more-or-less accepted what everyone had to say, and could only conclude that there was still a reasonable doubt. Which tbf has got to be the right result, because of the key bit being obscured and nobody directly saying what it was.

I guess it's still open to the FA to charge him to the Suarez standard of proof, but I'm assuming that won't happen now.

There is then the evidence of the lip readers. Both the lip reader instructed by the prosecution, Susan Whitewood, and the lip reader instructed by the defence, Laraine Callow, are clearly experts in their field. Nobody doubted their expertise. Helpfully they met together before the hearing and prepared a joint expert report. I can summarise the position, I hope not over-simply, in this way. Ms Whitewood is of the opinion that the words spoken by John Terry are “Yeah and I [obstruction] you/ya fucking black cunt (pause) fucking knobhead”. Ms Callow is of the same opinion. However both experts agree that there is the possibility that they are mistaken and in particular that “you/ya” may be “a” or indeed a number of other similar sounds. It is common ground that a lip reader is unable to comment on “tone of voice” or how words are said. In this context the experts cannot say whether the words observed were in a question form. Both experts agreed on the limitations of lip reading spelt out in Appendix 2 of Laraine Callow’s report, with “extremely minor differences”.

Yeah and I [obstruction] you/ya fucking black cunt (pause) fucking knobhead

yeahm, but if that word is 'called' then.....

The Crown Prosecution Service said the acquittal was ‘justice being done’ and insisted there was enough evidence to bring the case to trial.

But one legal source said: ‘It was a high-profile case and no one wants to be the person who signs off a decision to drop it or dispose of it in another way. You could say letting it run to court is the path of least resistance.

‘But it is also the most expensive and a verdict like this leaves no winners.’

no winners except juytee, his legal team, chelsea fc and chelsea's delightful fans