April 05, 2006

ARUBA'S "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" MISSES CRUCIAL COURT DEADLINE


Bon Dia Aruba
4/4/2006

Hat Tip--Getagrip!


ORANJESTAD – Yesterday, chief prosecutor Janssen went to the court building to deliver to the clerk a report related to the criminal investigation that the Holloway investigative team conducted on Joran van der Sloot.



NOT A FINAL REPORT


An investigation conducted by Bon Dia Aruba shows that the report that Ms. Janssen delivered to the court clerk is not the final report of the criminal investigation. Since there are still investigations taking place, it is difficult for Ms. Janssen to comply with the verdict of the Curaçao judge in the case of damages for prejudice that Mr. Paul van der Sloot started against the government.



This is how last month, the judge, in his interim verdict, instructed chief prosecutor Ms. Janssen to hand over the procesverbaal dealing with the criminal investigation into Joran van der Sloot, at the latest on the 3 of April. The reason the judge instructed Ms. Janssen to hand over the procesverbaal was on the basis of Ms. Janssen's own statements during the case proceedings. The judge, in his verdict, showed that Ms. Janssen said that in March 2005 [sic 2006?] the procesverbaal on the investigation on the Holloway case will be closed and also that the Public Prosecutor will take a decision whether they will prosecute people or not.



NO DECISION TO PROSECUTE


An investigation conducted by Bon Dia Aruba shows that chief prosecutor Ms. Janssen handed over the report related to the criminal investigation, (how can she hand in a report of the investigation if it is still SUPPOSEDLY going on?) but still has not taken a decision whether she will prosecute the suspects or not (11 months later and she's still thinking?). This is due to the situation that still the investigation hasn't been closed and still the final report is not closed.



Now that the report has been delivered, Mr. Swaen, who is the attorney of the Van der Sloot family in this case, will have to react to the report and has to hand over this reaction by April 17, at the latest. The judge will analyze these and on the 1st of May he will hand over the verdict.



Given the fact that Ms. Janssen did not completely comply with the judge's instructions, it is not known what will be the judge's reaction. There are two possibilities. Prosecutor Ms. Janssen will notify the judge about the situation and the judge will decide according to this report or the judge will say that the report is not sufficient and wants Ms. Janssen to comply with what he instructed. Time will tell what will happen. The fact is that chief prosecutor Ms. Janssen handed over a report related to the criminal investigation into Joran van der Sloot.



M's Final Note: If Janssen was doing her job, she would have known a deadline like this was coming and would have prepared in advance with the help of Dompig. Dompig hadn't even finished his 'new searches'...and now Dolf's in, Dompig's, out. What is the excuse this time? Is this another stall-tactic? Keep firing or removing people, shuffling the deck around...now you see it, now you don't. Well, Aruba, this is no carnival game.


Janssen will purposely do a half-assed job prosecuting this case and will bring forth little to nothing of value. The judge will see that there isn't enough information to charge the boys with murder, then--case closed. Daddy Paulus, Baby Huey, et al cannot be tried again in this case (double jeopardy) and they would be FREE. A nice loophole and easy way out so Joran and Paulus can "get on with their lives".







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