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Originally Posted by old-fart

You don't know that she didn't get a fair trial. Mexico has a "guilty until proven innocent" system. It has for a very long time. She failed to prove herself innocent, therefore by their justice system she is guilty. By their rules, she received a fair trial. Just because we in Canada don't have the same justice system, does not mean she didn't recieve a fair trial by Mexcian definition, and that is what counts in this case since she was in Mexico.

No, that's is not what counts. Their justice system is as crooked as a dogs hind leg - raising resonable doubt as to wether she got a fair trial. Even the Mexican govt has stated that their system needs to be overhauled.

Considering the lies that Ms. Martin has been caught in, it is not unreasonable to speculate that she did in fact receive a fair trail and the ruling was just.

I think it's stretch IMO to specualte she did get a fair trial.

Another interesting tidbit... she worked as a cook for 9 months but was fired for insulting her bosses mother and given a year's pay in severance of which she invested nearly half back into the illegal scheme her boss was running. Does that not strike anyone as more than a bit questionable? At the very large company I work for we generally give out one month severance for every year worked (to a max of 18 months) - but if fired with cause you get nothing.

Why would someone reinvest money into an illegal scheme if they knew what was going on? Esepecially since there would be a paper trail?

That too me raises doubts as to wether she knew what was going on.

As for Amnesty International, this isn't like Ms. Martin was a political prisoner being kept because she spoke out against the government. She wasn't being beaten daily. She was in a beauty pagent in the prison for cripes sake. AI has much bigger fish to fry than Ms. Martin. And yes, unless we are prepared to invade another sovereign country and impose our will on their people, we should be keeping our noses out of their justice department as best as we are able. From what I've seen, the Canadian Government has done everything we should reasonably expect from them in a situation like this.

I realise she's not a politcal prisoner. Still the report points out the corruption in the justice system.