R v Barlow

Indricotherium

Anyone watching the trial of the century Peter Barlow up for the murder of Tina!

Steve's breakdown on the witness stand and Roy's hatchet job on Peter's character not withstanding, I think Carla saying she thinks he's innocent will probably swing it for him. Nearly knocked the judges wig off.

So many questions still though....

Will Norris get his moment on the stand?

Will Rob get found out?

Does Carla still love Peter?

NUTLEY BOY

Indricotherium wrote: »

Anyone watching the trial of the century Peter Barlow up for the murder of Tina!

Steve's breakdown on the witness stand and Roy's hatchet job on Peter's character not withstanding, I think Carla saying she thinks he's innocent will probably swing it for him. Nearly knocked the judges wig off.

So many questions still though....

Will Norris get his moment on the stand?

Will Rob get found out?

Does Carla still love Peter?

Saw a few minutes of this last night. The judge needs to get a tighter grip on the witneses - too much gratuitous commentary coming from witnesses of fact. Dramatic licence I suppose.

Hopefully, Norris will be sentenced to a week in the stocks. Damn, we don't do that any more. Drat....

Mr. Incognito

No. Dont watch that brainless muck

Manach

Ever since that disgrace miscarriage of justice that started the grass root campaign of "Free the Weatherfield One" I for one am sceptical of a possibility of a fair trial.

Indricotherium

Prosecuting barrister having a field day tonight, I wasn't sure where he was going with that line of questioning but he drew Peter into that admission that he was desperate to get Tina out of his life. Played him like a flute.

Indricotherium

Jesus Peter, stop saying "I was at breaking point" and while you're at try to stop looking so guilty!

conorh91

Ken Barlow is turning into a quite the Jessica Fletcher.

Always in the middle of the trouble, but nobody ever asks any questions of him.

His wife, and both his adult children, have now been prosecuted on serious charges, two of them for murder.

And I still think Blanch's disappearance from the Street was highly suspicious.

There's something not quite right about him.

FreudianSlippers

Is this your way of asking for a legal discussion after hours forum?

Grolschevik

Am I right in remembering an 'off topic/general chat' thread here a few years ago?

Pat Mustard

Grolschevik wrote: »

Am I right in remembering an 'off topic/general chat' thread here a few years ago?

Right as usual, Grolschevik; hullaballoo's amazing cocktail bar!

Grolschevik

Could be a case for a 'law and legal process in popular culture' off-topic thread...

hullaballoo

The Mustard wrote: »

Right as usual, Grolschevik; hullaballoo's amazing cocktail bar!

That was a fun week!

I've thought about doing another off topic thread so maybe this can be it. Can anyone think of a decent suffix for it? E.g. R v Barlow (raise your defence glass) ...except funny.

Pat Mustard

Have Yis No Homes to go to?

Grolschevik

Habeas porcus.

conorh91

I quite liked the idea of a Corrie thread actually. With it's incredibly high crime rate, Wetherfield is a rich mine for legal discussion.

But an AH-type thread sounds better. Maybe call it the Tea-Room. The wearing of jackets would be compulsory, on pain of very accusing glares from the mods.

Pat Mustard

conorh91 wrote: »

The wearing of jackets would be compulsory, on pain of very accusing glares from the mods.

Smoking jackets?

Grolschevik

To bring it back to soaps, I'm always amazed by the lack of awareness of employment law and rights in them.

hullaballoo

I've always wanted to get at tattoo that says "nemo dat, bitch." Don't have the courage, though.

Corrie can of course be discussed in any off- topic thread. Ithink calling it off- topic is wrong anyway because the nature of lawyers is to discuss law (even when no one else wants to.) Maybe it should be just called a casual discussion thread.

What about "The Pit"?

Pat Mustard

The Dock

Fred Swanson

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Indricotherium

The Mustard wrote: »

The Dock

Could it not stay R v Barlow?

Pat Mustard

Indricotherium wrote: »

Could it not stay R v Barlow?

I suppose it could, for the time being anyway.

hullaballoo

Indricotherium wrote: »

Could it not stay R v Barlow?

Any name change to this thread would be to add something after "R v Barlow"... Think along the lines "R v Barlow (and other brain floss.)"

The idea would just be to alert people to the fact that the thread is more casual than others but no, I'd be keen on leaving the thread title as "R v Barlow".

Grolschevik

hullaballoo wrote: »

Any name change to this thread would be to add something after "R v Barlow"... Think along the lines "R v Barlow (and other brain floss.)"

The idea would just be to alert people to the fact that the thread is more casual than others but no, I'd be keen on leaving the thread title as "R v Barlow".

One last pitch for "R v Barlow: habeas porcus".

Fred Swanson

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Pat Mustard

This calls for a poll.

Indricotherium

The Mustard wrote: »

This calls for a poll.

R v Barlow, Mitchel, Braxton, Ewing, and others.

Indricotherium

15 more minutes and we'll know the verdict!!

conorh91

For god's sake please tell me this is on 3 player. I can't get home till 9.30pm.

No spoilers!

Grolschevik

Sure they're never found innocent. They always get convicted and then shocking new evidence leads to a reversal.

Pat Mustard

Poll added. Multiple choice voting allowed (I think).

MarkAnthony

R v Atari Jaguar?

Pat Mustard

MarkAnthony wrote: »

R v Atari Jaguar?

Added to poll.

Grolschevik

Heh. It allowed me to multiply choose, but seems only to have registered one of my three choices. Ironically, my least favourite!