@BillRM,
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There should had been a full investigation and if the evidence then supported a charge New York State should had gone to either the board of the IMF or the UN and ask for his diplomatic immunity to be waver.
He didn't have diplomatic immunity--whatever immunity he could claim was only related to IMF business, not to criminal actions on his part that were unrelated to his IMF work.
The "full investigation" is called a trial, dummy. And he will have a trial where all the evidence will come out and where it will be disputed by his defense.
Quote:We need to fully protect such people from being interfere with at the whim of local level police officers.
We should protect
no one from being answerable to criminal allegations of a serious nature.
And the "local level police officers" you are referring to aren't exactly Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife of Mayberry, from the old, "Andy Griffith Show".
The NYPD can match itself against any police department anywhere. And they apparently were not intimidated by who this man is--they went ahead and arrested him because they believed he had violated serious laws, because that's their job.
And the word of a hotel maid is just as important as the word of anyone else who reports a crime to the police, and so far she has appeared very credible to her employer, the police, the D.A., and the grand jury. And absolutely nothing has thus far emerged that should cause anyone to question her credibility.
Strauss-Kahn, on the other hand, has a reputation for behaving toward women in a manner that makes it seem very possible that he might have committed these crimes--particularly toward a lowly hotel maid who he might regard as "only a servant". If anyone's credibility is suspect, I think it's his. I'm not so impressed by his professional accomplishments that I'd go to the extent of denying other aspects of his character.
This is just another person accused of sexual assaults in NYC. The NYPD makes such arrests every day, you just don't hear about them. And everyone arrested gets treated the same way. There really is nothing remarkable about this legal case thus far, it's just getting media hype and even that is dying down in the U.S.. He's not well known here, and I don't think most people have any great interest in him.
The trial should be interesting only because both sides will have to be at the top of their game and I enjoy that kind of legal sparring.
