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Katsav will not be the only one on trial Former president Moshe Katsav is to be indicted anew on rape charges. The trial date and venue - either the Tel Aviv or Jerusalem District Courts - have obviously not been determined. But whatever the outcome, the prosecution's shoddy handling of the entire sordid affair will probably taint the judgment's legitimacy. We say this without taking sides on the guilt or innocence of the accused. The facts of this case must be examined in open court, as they should have been to begin with. The flaw in this case is that the evidence was not brought to the court in a timely fashion; nor was meticulous attention paid to the legal rights of the accused. In other systems of jurisprudence, such mishandling would probably have served as grounds for dismissal of the charges. THE KATSAV affair began on July 5, 2006, when Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz met with the president, at Katsav's request, to hear him complain of a blackmail attempt (by ...

INSTANT MESSAGE STUD RETURNS Why oh why do these sex addicts, pervs, cheaters, liars and abusers lie? Or claim that the real victim was them? They get mad because someone caught them. They become righteously indignant that someone found out their little secret. And Damn It - someone had a tv camera or audio running to capture these lies. Nowadays - its the computer. Believe me, no matter how much you tell yourself you have deleted or erased something either from your own computer or a website? Its still there. Traces of it captured forever. And its not hard to find, people. I watched an NYPD Computer Technologist pull something out of what should have been cyber-oblivion 3 years ago. It took him all of 10 minutes. It took them even less time to verify that instant messages were not altered and where they came from, i.e. whose computers (IP traces) they came from. Scary. So Foley's back and Florida's pissed. Everyone's pissed because we found that what was being sa...