Rapper Facing a Life Sentence for Recording an Album

[Martinus]

This is actually quite a fascinating story - here is an article from New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime

[Eddie Teach]

You know you're getting old when you start describing events of 6-7 years ago as "lately". 

[garbon]

You know you're getting old when you start describing events of 6-7 years ago as "lately". 

[Martinus]

You know you're getting old when you start describing events of 6-7 years ago as "lately". 

[KRonn]

You know you're getting old when you start describing events of 6-7 years ago as "lately". 

Lately I've been feeling like that...

[Norgy]

Is disco beyond statutes of limitations yet? If not, go for it.

[Sheilbh]

You know you're getting old when you start describing events of 6-7 years ago as "lately". 

Mart remembers the 'recent' past.



Courtesy of M. Butt.

[Ed Anger]

 

[sbr]

This is actually quite a fascinating story - here is an article from New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime

WTF is this normal for Polish courtrooms?

Everyone's attention, it seemed, was directed toward a zoolike cage near the center of the courtroom. It was almost nine feet high and twenty feet long, and had thick metal bars. Standing in the middle of it, wearing a suit and peering out calmly through his spectacles, was Krystian Bala. He faced up to twenty-five years in prison.

[Eddie Teach]

WTF is this normal for Polish courtrooms?

Everyone's attention, it seemed, was directed toward a zoolike cage near the center of the courtroom. It was almost nine feet high and twenty feet long, and had thick metal bars. Standing in the middle of it, wearing a suit and peering out calmly through his spectacles, was Krystian Bala. He faced up to twenty-five years in prison.

Maybe they figured he was too dangerous? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He1MTYvyUes

[jimmy olsen]

This is actually quite a fascinating story - here is an article from New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime

WTF is this normal for Polish courtrooms?

Everyone's attention, it seemed, was directed toward a zoolike cage near the center of the courtroom. It was almost nine feet high and twenty feet long, and had thick metal bars. Standing in the middle of it, wearing a suit and peering out calmly through his spectacles, was Krystian Bala. He faced up to twenty-five years in prison.

That's some crazy shit!

[MadImmortalMan]

Didn't Saddam's trial have something similar?

[The Brain]

Was it rap-rap?

[Martinus]

This is actually quite a fascinating story - here is an article from New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime

WTF is this normal for Polish courtrooms?

Everyone's attention, it seemed, was directed toward a zoolike cage near the center of the courtroom. It was almost nine feet high and twenty feet long, and had thick metal bars. Standing in the middle of it, wearing a suit and peering out calmly through his spectacles, was Krystian Bala. He faced up to twenty-five years in prison.

Actually, I must have missed it. That's nuts. I have never seen or heard anything like this in a Polish court. 

[Martinus]

Ok here is a picture of the cage:



To me these are more prison bars than a "zoo-like cage" separating the accused from the rest of the courtroom. Still, somewhat weird - but I suppose what else you do when you have a potentially criminally insane murderer?