And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
An indictment is not a conviction.