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Dr. DAS
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Way to go, Mexico...*golf clap*

This poor woman. Our government better do something...like, right fucking now.

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Canadian Brenda Martin Found Guilty By Mexican Judge
Tuesday April 22, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

Brenda Martin made headlines months ago when it was discovered she had been held in a Mexican jail for more than two years without facing trial.

Martin, formerly of Trenton, Ont., finally went to trial Tuesday and was found guilty of fraud.

She and her former boss and maintained her innocence, saying that is was only the employer who knew about the Internet scam.

The Canadian woman was given a five-year sentence and fined 35,800 pesos (roughly $3400 CDN).

The news has worried her supporters: Martin has been under suicide watch at the prison.


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Yohan
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Re: Way to go, Mexico...*golf clap*

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Originally posted by Dr. DAS
This poor woman. Our government better do something...like, right fucking now.

Does anyone know the details of the case? I've seen her plea on TV couple of times, but no real hard facts


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Re: Re: Way to go, Mexico...*golf clap*

quote:
Originally posted by Yohan
Does anyone know the details of the case? I've seen her plea on TV couple of times, but no real hard facts


Well that is part of the problem. From my understanding, there wasn't much of a case, and it could have been down to Mexican incompetence+corruption. Mexico was just happy letting her sit there and rot, until the government got involved.

It's funny because it actually took Paul Martin's involvement to trigger Harper to do anything. Until PM PM started to get interested and fight for Brenda, Harper washed his hands. Then all of a sudden, it became a big deal and the Fed got involved.

Looks like diplomacy failed in this case. But being convicted and having the world know your story *might* be better than sitting in a jail, in a foreign country without charge.

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That is so heartbreaking. So sad.

She will commit suicide soon unfortunately. I listened to her on CBC Radio about 2 months ago when her friend happened to have her on the other line during the radio call. My heart goes out to her. Her trial was unfair, and took her in because they didn't get the big fish.

The Mexican justice system places the onus on the accused to prove his or her innocence -- rather than on the prosecution to prove the guilt of the accused.


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Dr. DAS
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Re: Re: Way to go, Mexico...*golf clap*

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Does anyone know the details of the case? I've seen her plea on TV couple of times, but no real hard facts


quote:

Brenda’s Story
Brenda Martin is a Canadian woman who has been
imprisoned in a Mexican jail since February 2006.
Brenda’s family have been desperately attempting
to raise awareness of her plight, calling on the
Canadian Government to ensure that she receives a
fair trial.

Brenda was the chef for Alyn Richard Waage, owner
of an investment company that turned out to be
fraudulent. Waage fired Brenda as his chef in 2001
with severance pay, where she than invested the
money into Waage’s business which she thought was legitimate.

One month later Waage was arrest for fraud and is currently serving a 10 year sentence in North Carolina. Brenda was picked up by Mexican authorities years later for allegedly being involved in the scheme. Although she was charged with being a member of a criminal organization and money laundering, there has never been a trial where she has been able to present her defence and she is not aware of any evidence being presented to prove her guilty of those charges.


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Canadian woman works as chef, gets fired with severance and invests that money in what turned out to be her former boss's shell company.

He was arrested and convicted of fraud, he denies Brenda having any knowledge of the fraud.

She is arrested and held without due process - or access to basic human nessesities for two years.




SOURCE


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mexico is such a fucked up country... one reason why i refuse to vacation there.

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I suspect there is more than meets the eye with this.


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i do understand her being upset for not having a trial.

but they can't prove that she didn't know she was invloved in fraud. just because her former boss said she wasn't involved. i mean, he is already serving his sentence, what difference does it make to him to lie.

the woman is in bad shape tho. i heard her on CBC and she is quite sad.

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mexico is such a fucked up country... one reason why i refuse to vacation there.





I just plain hate Mexicans.

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I just plain hate Mexicans.

because they made that stupid Family Feud PC game!


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not true. i say "ugh"
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lol colour me retarded

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quote:
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because they made that stupid Family Feud PC game!




LOL

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Dr. DAS
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quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
I suspect there is more than meets the eye with this.


It doesn't matter if she IS guilty, a Canadian citizen is being held in a squallid, foreign jail without charge or due process of any kind, and our government is effectively doing nothing.

There, but for the grace of God...


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