Natalee Holloway Suspects Arrested
[Guest post by DRJ]
Three of the initial suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway have been arrested in Aruba and the Netherlands:
“Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor’s office said, citing new evidence in the case.
Joran van der Sloot of the Netherlands and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.”
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Van der Sloot, 20, was re-arrested in the Netherlands, where he was attending university. The Kalpoe brothers – Deepak is 24, Satish, 21 – were taken into custody in Aruba.Authorities “ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence,” the office said without providing further details. Officials there could not immediately be reached for further comment.”
This is obviously a sad story for the Holloway family — it would be terrible to lose a child, let alone not to know what happened to her. However, one of the interesting lessons this case teaches is that criminal justice systems in other countries work differently than in America.
It’s something we shouldn’t take for granted. In fact, it’s something to be thankful for.
— DRJ
I don’t mean this as criticism, but grammatically I don’t know what you’re referring to: One should be thankful other justice systems are better than America’s? Or that America’s justice system is better than other countries’? Or that diversity among national justice systems is good?
Christoph (92b8f7) — 11/21/2007 @ 3:35 pmChristoph,
I think there’s truth to each of your statements, e.g., different countries have different laws/legal systems and some aspects can be better and worse. If I have to pick one point it would be that people should be aware legal systems vary and, when you add distance and (in some cases) a different language, it will be a bigger problem if something goes wrong.
DRJ (973069) — 11/21/2007 @ 6:29 pmI learned that lesson the hard way. In most other countries you have to prove your innocence rather than have the government(s) try to prove your guilt at trial. It’s a big difference because you can rot in jail for months before a trial happens and without daily legal representation working on your behalf you will find that proving your innocence is very very hard. I think the right to get out of jail is called habeas corpus but not to worry, it doesn’t exist in most other countries.
Howard Veit (cc8b85) — 11/22/2007 @ 1:08 am