{"id":189820,"date":"2010-02-09T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/if-on-the-jury-i-would-vote-to-acquit\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:32:00","slug":"if-on-the-jury-i-would-vote-to-acquit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/if-on-the-jury-i-would-vote-to-acquit\/","title":{"rendered":"If On the Jury, I Would Vote to Acquit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of German pensioners are on trial for abducting and imprisoning their investment adviser:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A retired architect and four other pensioners took their financial adviser hostage and held him in a purpose-built prison in Bavaria after their stock market investments failed, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old architect, identified only as Roland K, told a court in Traunstein, southern Germany, that he and his accomplices thought their financial adviser had &#8220;cheated and taken the piss&#8221; out of them after their investments in the US property market evaporated. As a result, he told the court, they had &#8220;decided to invite him for a few days&#8217; holiday in Upper Bavaria&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Roland K denied kidnapping but admitted the group, including his seventh wife, 79-year-old Sieglinde, Willi D, 60, and Iris F, 64, a retired doctor, abducted James Amburn at his home in Speyer, southern Germany, in June before transporting him in the boot of a car to Roland K&#8217;s house at the lakeside resort of Chiemsee, where he had built a prison for him in the cellar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t approve of such behavior, and I would not do so myself, but if these sorts of vigilante justice are nullified by juries on a regular basis, bankers will start looking to preserving their skins, and not their bonuses and tax dodges.<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t get the message soon, we will see the people with guns shooting bank presidents.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that the bankers get the message before we start seeing widespread murders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of German pensioners are on trial for abducting and imprisoning their investment adviser: A retired architect and four other pensioners took their financial adviser hostage and held him in a purpose-built prison in Bavaria after their stock market investments failed, a court has heard. The 74-year-old architect, identified only as Roland K, told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1052,1004,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-crimes","category-finance","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}